jimzdat Posted March 16, 2003 Posted March 16, 2003 Maybe I'm more than a little confused--I managed to set up a subdomain using cPanel without any trouble, and now I would like to set up a phpBB on that subdoamin. When I log into cPanel and go to the "Bulletin Board" setup, it tells me that it must be in a top level directory, but it defaults to my main URL, not the subdomain. How do I set up the forum on the subdomain? Do I have to set it up on the main URL and then move everything, or is there an easier way that I just can't seem to figure out yet? Thanks, Jim Quote
TCH-Rick Posted March 16, 2003 Posted March 16, 2003 When you go to install phpBB it will ask you what you want to name the subdirectory it should be installed to. This subdirectory must be off your main directory. For example, if you want to install it into a subdirectory named forums you could then have a subdomain called forums.**** to access the board. Quote
jimzdat Posted March 16, 2003 Author Posted March 16, 2003 thats exactly what i want to do (my main site is jimzdat.com--I want the forum to be on hybridz.jimzdat.com) the problem is when I go into cPanel to set up the forum, it says "the forum will be set up at this URL:", and lists just jimzdat.com(blank square for directory name)--it wont let me select the subdomain name at the front of the url. Hopefully that makes enough sense for someone to figure out what I mean Quote
baseline Posted March 16, 2003 Posted March 16, 2003 i get what u mean basically phpbb doesn't care where it is. all data is retrieved from the database and subdirectories are accessed relative to the forum's main directory. so you can install the forum in /forum/ and then rename it or move it to whereever you want and it wouldn't matter. so if you went in cpanel and made a subdomain called BLAHBLAH, then i think a subdir called BLAHBLAH will be created in your main public_html dir. you can then move the stuff inside /forum/ into the BLAHBLAH (making sure it's doesn't become BLAHBLAH/forum/ but just /BLAHBLAH/) after that if you go to BLAHBLAH.****** , it is actually accessing www.******/BLAHBLAH/ i think that's how it works.. or that's how i did it before.. Quote
jimzdat Posted March 16, 2003 Author Posted March 16, 2003 OK, thanks--I'll give that a try and see what I can figure out Quote
TCH-Rick Posted March 16, 2003 Posted March 16, 2003 Just type hybridz into the blank space in the phpBB install routine and it will do just what you want. A subdomain points to a subdirectory in your main public_html directory. If you already have created that subdomain in the cPanel it work as you want. Quote
jimzdat Posted March 17, 2003 Author Posted March 17, 2003 That fixed it! Thanks for all your help--I just signed up a couple days ago, and so far I'm quite impressed with the level of support here--I spent a month or two going to different hosts checking out their support sections--this place is by far the best! Jim Quote
TCH-Don Posted March 17, 2003 Posted March 17, 2003 And welcome to the family, both of you. You will love it here! (of course I'm Irish, and so is SlowPoke) Quote
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