Phpbb Problems

[jayc]

I have been through all of the support messages in the forum base, and have not seen anything that speaks to my problem.

 

I decided to test out the bbs function and even went to read the CPanel docs, but still cannot figure out what is going on.

 

From CPanel I put in the forum name, and it comes back and tells me that the forum (bbs) was created.

 

When I click on the back button I can see that the forum is there, when click on the modify button it puts me into the top screen.

 

The problem starts when I try to log in using the default user name for my account. Sez that I have the wrong password, even though the member list tells me that user name is a member of the forum.

 

When I try to get it to send me a new password it sez that the user name and the email address do not match. Tried all the emails I have registered and none of them work, although I would have expected my_username@my_domainname to be the one that was registered with the account.

 

When I check out the CPanel docs, they apparently refer to another bbs/forum package called XMB rather than phpBB. When I attempt to follow the instructions and login and/or register per the CPanel docs I run into the same problems as above.

 

At this point I would like to kill these attempts and start over again, however there is no delete button and I am _very_ reluctant to try deleting the folders and/or the databases to do this.

 

Any ideas out there ?

 

Jay

jayrclark@earthlink.net

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

I had to try several times with my PHPBB board but some patience and it does get there in the end!

 

For the life of me, i can not remember the admin password you need to use, but you should be able to change it by going to the phpadmin and going through the database.

 

Hmmm, try "admin" for your login and your standard password

 

Without fiddling i can't work it out.

 

Also, what i did was to create a folder called "forum" so i could play around in there without runing my website.

 

BTW the best place to go for PHPBB help is www.phpbb.com where they have a great community.

 

 

Jim

[Jimmy Legs]

i wouldn't worry about deleting everything to start over. as long as you installed your forum into its own folder, you can just delete this whole thing. then in Manage Mysql you can delete the sql database that was created by the bulletin board.

 

start over and install a new board. make sure you wait before trying to access the board itself, so the database can be created, etc. the first time i did it i tried immediately going to the board and i got the whole install page, which was confusing. a minute later, i tried it again and the board popped right up, ready to go.

 

and that "XMB" thing is just partof your database's name, it goes with the phpbb.

 

hope that helps!