How To Run A Board Forum Like myBB And SMF in Your Own PC [just for fun]!

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I use XAMPP on my computer from www.apachefriends.org and despite it comes with its own MySQL server, I prefer to connect a script's database to a remote server (my hosting provider) so I can make sure what I'm testing on my computer will be the same when uploaded.

However there are some WAMPP distros that comes already with phpBB installed, so you simply need to run the setup to get the forum working. You may find them browsing hotscripts.com in the PHP section.

On the other hand, you can setup a DynDNS domain to let other people what you are doing on your computer; doing this does not require to open any port because localhost runs in either port 80 or 8080 and that is the port the service will connect using the IP that your ISP is assigning you when you access the service.