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

[RichardGv]

ok quick question, how do you install phpbb? lol on your computer i know how to do it online

There's almost no differences, except:
1. You cannot install phpBB through Fantastico or Softculous locally;
2. If you are using a machine running Microsoft Windows, the filesystem permission system is different from Unix/Linux. I think it's pretty similar to the situation that you set every file/directory to 777 on *nix systems, but I'm not so sure. (I believe Windows has some ways to overcome this (Access Control List?), but I don't really know.) A good aspect is you will almost never need to chmod files/directories anymore. The bad part is this will be a security issue.

[HiddenKnowledge]

If you want a test server I would advise (for windows) usbwebserver.
You dont need to do any configuring and you can take it with you on usb.
http://usbwebserver.com/

[khy]

does that program have engish version?
I see that website is written on german and I do not understand that kind of langauge

[RichardGv]

does that program have engish version?
I see that website is written on german and I do not understand that kind of langauge

There's an English version on the download page. It's currently version 7.0: http://usbwebserver.com/UsbWebserver_en.rar
I generally perfer XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html
Some other persons I have seen perfer WampServer: http://www.wampserver.com/en/
You can find other alternatives in this comprehensive list: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e...n_of_WAMPs

[citrorm]

i usually run php code in this method you provide~

[tigret]

Sound coolio...I'll definitely try it..

[ErrorCode]

Those instructions weren't very clear, and the link you've provided is dead. Sounds interesting, but there's no way to be sure of how to do it. We need more clarification. Will this work for Mac OS X users?

[Zach]

It won't work for Mac OS X users, because the package he linked to is Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP. You would need something for Mac (MAMP?)
I thought that Macs came with a built-in copy of Apache, though.

[MyDigitalpoint]

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.

[Ruko]

Its clearly impossible to run a website via your PC. Because that means you need to leave your PC on 24/7. And plus, with all the incoming traffic, your ISP will be pissed at you haha! So, don't even try. Only use it for testing mods and styles.