How can i work on my IPB forum offline ?

[diantonio]

Hello guys, 

so basically  i didn't pay my host for 2 months and day deleted my forum. Now what i want to do is start from scratch, but there a lot of things i need to add over long period of time, so i want to create and develop my forum offline and when i add everything - go live.

 

How can i do this ? Please be specific, i am not good in the technical part

[GradientWizzard]

XAMPP, EasyPHP, AppServ

[diantonio]

So i install XAMPP, start the services and put the www forum folder in the xampp folder ?

[GradientWizzard]

Congratulations!

[Tony]

Or.. you can simply turn put the community in offline mode, and only grant access to specific member groups.

[Lock Down]

Or copy all folder files to a new folder. Copy database to a new name. Change the conf_global.php file in new folder to point to that folder.

[diantonio]

Thanks guys I also found this video - for those who have the same issue :

 

How to install Invision Power board on Wamp server

 

The only difference with XAMPP is that you need to copy the IPB files in X:xampphtdocs (just delete everything in htdocs).

[Verified]

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