jscfan Posted September 5, 2003 Posted September 5, 2003 I have a few questions about the free forums TCH offer. Here's a few so here we go... 1. I'm basically trying to get a general idea of what I'm about to encounter in regards to bandwidth and all when I install Invision. Like right now my current forums are free with ads (jscfan.proboards21.com). I currently have 50+ members and I think we average about 15-20 posts daily at this moment. I really don't know what the daily or monthly traffic is so I couldn't tell you that. With that info is there any way you can kinda of give me an idea on how much my bandwidth increase will be? 2. Is there a way I can install and have the forums set to private where I'm the only one that can view and access them, no one else but me. I ask this because I would like to work on them such as customizing it and getting it ready before I decide to make them live. Is this possible? 3. If for some reason I decide to not go with the forums even after I installed them, can I uninstalled them or place them offline without uninstalling them? I don't know why I would do this, but you never know. 4. In regards to custom skins, smilies and all. Do you guys offer support here @ TCH forums? In other words technical support for installation or any problems one encounters. Or would my best bet be at IBPlanet.com for any help with installs and stuff like that... That's all I can think of right now, but I'm pretty sure I will come up with some more. And if any other info or tips I should know or please let me know. Thanks in advance... Rock Sign Quote
TCH-Sales Posted September 6, 2003 Posted September 6, 2003 Lets see if I can answer some of those questions! No real way to tell from our standpoint how much bandwidth you're going to use. You can upgrade to the next highest plan though if you start to run out of bandwidth so that shouldn't be an issue. As far as shutting the forums down for customization, I believe InvisionBoard has an internal setting under Admin that will allow only mods and admins to see the board. Thumbs Up Yes you can un-install the forums, or put them offline as a mentioned above. We don't provide skin support, but I'm sure more than a few people would be willing to help you out if you get stuck. IBPlanet.com is probably the best resource I've found for those types of things as well. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 Hi, Long before I ever came here, I too was a proboards member, and when I started my new phpBB board here, It took about 2 megs a day, hardly anything so I would not worry about bandwidth. One thing I did do, just so I could track more carefully was to make the forum folder a sub domain folder so that I can track with AWstats a lot more closer. IPB and phpBB both have an offline system There are lots of us here who have forums on our own site so help will not be a problem Jim Quote
jscfan Posted September 8, 2003 Author Posted September 8, 2003 thanks for the replies, really appreciate it. Jimuni I got a question about making the forum folder a sub domain so I can track it much closer. How do I do that? I'm sorry, but I have no idea how to do that...Do I just do the click install for the forums or do I have to do something else? Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 Hi, The way that i did it was first, enter into cPANEL and then file manager and make a folder, call it "forum" Then, return back to cPANEL and goto your subdomain area, and create a subdomain called "forum". Now you can goto to subdomain stats and there you will find different ways at looking at the info that is only concerned with your subdomain. Any more help needed, just ask! Quote
jscfan Posted September 8, 2003 Author Posted September 8, 2003 ok, I have made a folder in File Manager named "forums". I didn't place it in the public_html folder. That ok, right? And I made my sub-domain "forums.jscfan.com". Now when I got to the install page of InvisionBoard 1.1.2 Setup. How come it's not installing it under my newly created sub-domain? Did I do something wrong? thanks in advance... Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 (edited) Hi, 1) You need to make the folder called "forums" in the public_html folder. 2) Try installing the forum before you make it a subdomain (it should not make any difference but just incase it does) 3) Remember you must put the path in as "Http://www.jscfan.com/forums" where you enter just the word "forums" (and when you do make it as subdomain, then you can access it via forums.jscfan.com) 4) If you still have problems when carring this out, please do start a help ticket, and I shall do it for you Jim Edited September 8, 2003 by Jimuni Quote
jscfan Posted September 9, 2003 Author Posted September 9, 2003 well I created the folder like you stated in the public_html folder and when I go to install the forums I get the following message: "/home/jscfanc/public_html/forums already exists" I've never started a help ticket, where do I do that Jimuni and is there a fee for me starting a help ticket? Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 9, 2003 Posted September 9, 2003 Jscfan, Its free to submit a help ticket, we offer the best support there possible is for web hosting! You can go here to submit a help ticket: https://ssl.totalchoicehosting.com/supportdesk/ Jim Quote
jscfan Posted September 9, 2003 Author Posted September 9, 2003 thanks Jimuni and I'm sorry for all the trouble. I followed all the steps and I don't know what went wrong. I've submitted the ticket with my explanation of what I want with the install just in case someone else besides you installs it for me. Thanks again. Thumbs Up Quote
jscfan Posted September 10, 2003 Author Posted September 10, 2003 thanks for the quick ticket response Rick and for installing it for me. That was very fast and I understood your notes makes alot of sense. Here's another question. Now that my forums are installed do I have to register to become an admin or am I waiting for an email with my username and password? I ask because I already see an admin member on there Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 Hi, If Rick used the setup via cpanel, Rick will have been offered the opportunity to give your admin password and name, and hence I suggest you reply to the help ticket that you generated originally. If not, you can always request the password via the IPB feature. However, do try your Cpanel name and password first Jim Quote
jscfan Posted September 10, 2003 Author Posted September 10, 2003 well I tried my cpanel username and pw and all I got was this Sorry, we could not find a member called jscfanc, are you sure it's correct? I'm gonna reply to my ticket now for my pw... Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) Hi, I just remembered what it will be, for the username anyway! (Amazing what coffee does to you at 01:46am) The admin username is "admin" Try that with your current CPANEL password Jim Edited September 10, 2003 by Jimuni Quote
jscfan Posted September 10, 2003 Author Posted September 10, 2003 Jim, I was able to login after I figured it out that the username is "admin" and it worked fine with my cpanel password. But I have a little problem, I didn't know I needed to let you guys know that I wanted my username to be: "alirio" instead of "admin" since the title Administrator is already under where the avatar would display. Please don't tell me I'm stuck with Admin as my username, can this be fixed please? I tried to see if I can change my username on my control panel of the forums, but no luck. I replied 2 times to Rick so I hope he is not mad at me. I'm sorry for giving you guys headaches. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 (edited) Hi, The answer to your question is yes and no. No you can't change the admin username, but you can get around it. Log out, Register whatever name you like and make sure that it works by posting a single post. Then log out. Now log back in as admin and goto your admin control panel. Find the username which you just created and make it also a admin too. Then from now on, always enter by that new name. Should you ever have any problems, you can then always go back in under the old admin. Its a clever trick and one used widely Jim Edited September 10, 2003 by Jimuni Quote
TCH-Dick Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 Or just go to phpMyAdmin in cPanel. Find the database for you forum. Browse the table ibf_members find the user named admin and click edit. Just change name to what you want and save. Make sure you are logged out of forum. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted September 10, 2003 Posted September 10, 2003 Hope you got my reply. I was certainly not mad at you, just busy making out a test for my Probability and Stats classes for tomorrow. (I suspect some of them will be mad at me tomorrow.) Quote
jscfan Posted September 10, 2003 Author Posted September 10, 2003 yeah man I got your email right when I got home. Thanks again guys for all your replies and help. Quote
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