Popular Post Phun Posted February 20, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2013 How to install Invision Power Board 3.4 - A Step-by-Step tutorial by Phun from WebFlake.net - Things we need: A webhost that supports PHP A webhost that allows Databases A webhost that is offshore The latest package of Invision Power Board An FTP client (Like FileZilla) A brain and the will to learn Note: This works on pretty much every version of IP.Board. They all install in similar fashion. 1. Finding a webhost For the installation of Invision Power Board (and any other forum board software) we need a webhost. Finding a webhost is the hard part of this, as webhosting and domains are not for free. For people that first want to try the software out, you can get a subdomain and free hosting, for this i recommend you sign up at http://000webhost.com/ as they are a well known free hosting company. Alright, now when you've set your hosting account up we can go to step 2. 2. File Transfer Protocol & FileZillaFrom your webhost you will receive log-in details to your control panel, and login details for FTP. FTP stands for File-Transfer-Protocol and is used to upload files to your webspace. Programmers already have made a nice tool for this called 'FileZilla' it is free and easy to download: Click Here Just follow the installation steps for FileZilla and start it up, once you're done, launch the program. Click the icon you see on the top left (not the arrow) Click "New Site" and fill in your site's name Change the type to "Normal" and fill in the details you got from your hosting company Click the Connect button Now you should see the home directory, double click the folder called "public_html" You're done for now, keep FileZilla open because we are going to use it later on in this tutorial! 3. Creating a database To store usernames and data, Invision Power Board needs a database. Creating a database is very simple. Your host most likely has cPanel, which is what i'm going to show you. If your host doesn't have cPanel and uses a different control panel, search for things that are similar to those shown on screenshots. 1. Log in to your website's cpanel, which can be accessed by putting /cpanel at the end of your domain 2. Click the "MySQL Databases" button (shown above) We want to create a new database, so we will fill in the name, in our case "demo". We also need to add a user, so fill this area in and click "Create User" After that, add the user to the database, select the two and click "ADD". We should give the user full permissions, click "All Priviliges" and Click "Make Changes". We are now done with this part, our database has been set up. Copy the details somewhere because you will need the at the installation! So far it's going great. 4. Downloading & Transferring IPBIf you are a license holder, download the latest package of Invision Power Board from your clients area's download center and unRAR it somewhere you want. If not, visit the DL system over at WebFlake.net to download the latest version from the internet. Go to the "upload" folder of the downloaded package and select all files (CTRL+A) and drag them into the 'public_html' of your filezilla screen, it should start uploading the files. Once everything is uploaded, navigate to your website and proceed to Step 5. 5. Installing Invision Power Board Once all your files are uploaded, navigate to your domain. The installer should pop up! Click next on the first page you see. If there's any errors, contact your host about it! 1. Accept the EULA on the next page. 2. Select the applications you want installed and click "Next" 3. Make sure the addresses are OK and click "Next" (they should be OK by default) 4. Enter your License key (optional) Now we have to fill in the details we got from creating the database, the host should be localhost by default, if this doesn't work: Contact your host for the details. Fill in the database details like above, you don't need to fill in the table prefix. After that, fill in your admin account and let the isntallation finish! This is a fully automated process and should take about 5 to 10 minutes. When it's ready you should see this: Your forum is installed! When you go to your domain, you should see the default IPB data and skin. Just click the "Sign in" button to sign in and start configuring your installation by clicking the "Login to your Admin CP" link above your little profile when logged in. Just click the link and fill in your details hxxp://yourdomain.com/admin/ and configure everything. Make sure you go to FileZilla and delete the admin->install folder completely! Installation Complete! © Phun - WebFlake.net 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iNach0z Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Nice guide mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest frosky Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Thank's! I needed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Lovely guide.. However I think you should use something besdies 000webhost, as they tend to suspend accounts for nulled software, I recomend x10hosting (Sometimes) 1freehosting, or neq3. Those have all worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Thanks for the tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chester07 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thanks! Really helpful to newbies like me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hitsugaya Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 I would recommend 2freehosting.com, it's quite amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BensTechTips Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Thanks for this! Really useful tutorial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IAmTheGame Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 great tutorial sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nesquick. Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 I tryed, and, he gives me a error on index.php on a line. If anyone can help me please PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edbrows Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 (edited) Hello guysFirstly I would like to thank you for having this site available ... And thanks for sharing.-------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- The problem is this:I'm creat a mew subforum and i'm trying to install it on that new forum (proaudio.exemple.org/) The installation was successfully but only when I go to the site (proaudio.exemple.org) shows me this: The requested URL / home / user / public_html / index.php was not found on this server. The directory for my forum/public_html/subdomains/xxxx/ So the file index.php should look at the /home/user/public_html/subdomains/xxxx/index.phpandnot in/home/user/public_html/index.php Does the problem has to do with the file robotstxt.txt? I have to change the /forum/ for /subdomains/xxxx/Or something more ... what should I do? Note: Does not contain .htaccess Details: Invision Power Board 3.3 Address details Install Directory: /home/user/public_html/subdomains/xxxx/ Install Addres: http://proaudio.exemple.org/ Help me please Thanks Edited March 17, 2013 by Edbrows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest liwlen Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Awesome tutorial! ;] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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selfish24 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 tnx it helps me a lot ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnykill Posted April 19, 2013 Share Posted April 19, 2013 Thank you, now i can setup my web Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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