[Tutorial] Your own forum

[Thelovefool]

Hello together,
today i wanna introduce and show you how to setup an forum with a software which is free and nearly as good as vbulletin.
Firstly i would advice that you take a look at this example page and decide if you want to go on reading: Likedealer Gildenforum - Index

What do we need?
- Filezilla
- webhoster with: php, mysql, ftp


Lets start

Edit: Just found out that you can change the kilu language:


In our case we will use the the german free hoster kilu.de - Freehosting: Webspace kostenlos, gratis Webhosting so everyone can reproduce the steps without a problem.

1. Sign up at kilu.de - Freehosting: Webspace kostenlos, gratis Webhosting (you will get your password send to your e-mail)

2. Login with the e-mail used for the registration here

3. Go to kilu.de - Freehosting: Webspace kostenlos, gratis Webhosting tick a newsletter and click on "abschicken" (which make the hosting avaible)

4. Go to kilu.de - Freehosting: Webspace kostenlos, gratis Webhosting fill in a name for you project and tick one of the boxes below.

5. You will get directed to a page where you have to fill in the domain name of your page.

6. Go to kilu.de - Freehosting: Webspace kostenlos, gratis Webhosting and click on your new project (which is "forum" in my case)



7. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and copy your ftp datas ("Ihr Accountpasswort" means "your accountpassword").



8. The forum needs a mysql database so we have to create one. Click on the tab mysql and than on "MySQL Datenbank aktivieren" (which means "create a database")

Wait a second and copy the following datas which are marked on my picture (we will need them later)



The upper marked part displays your mysql login and the second part below your database name.

10. Download and install Filezilla. We will need it now.

11. Go to SMF Downloads and download SMF 1.1.11 which is our forum software.



12. Open Filezilla and use your copyed ftp datas from step 9



13. If you are succesfully logged in you have to go into the folder "www"



14. Extract "smf_1-1-11_install.zip" and upload all extracted files to your webspace.



15. If everything is copyed well open your browser and enter your kilu url

16. Enter a forum name, untick gzip output, tick utf-8 character set



17. Fill in your MySQL Server settings which you copied in step 10



18. Enter your MySQL Passwort again and create an admin account. Click on Finish

19. Tick "Click here to delete this install.php file now. (doesn't work on all servers.)" and navigate to your new forum


Modifications, themes etc

If i find time in the evening i will go on with modifications

[CimSlunt]

Noice!! +Rep

Gonna have a go now thanks.

When entering details into FileZilla and attempting to connect i keep getting "Failed - Connection refused by server."

EDIT: Fixed, i was entering localhost instead of my servers host :P

EDIT 2 ::: I have forum up and running thanks :d How ever i would really appreciate it if you continued your guide on how to modify themes etc etc.

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[Thelovefool]

I will but atm i dont have that much time. but i promise the tutorial will be ready tomorrow

[CimSlunt]

No rush pal. I have managed to change theme of forum, just tinkering now uploading my own images etc etc.

Im very pleased with this tutorial Thank you .

[enjoi enjoi enjoi]

Looks good man keep it up!

[geddy]

thanks for info........