Installing phpBB Forum/Bulletin Board on Windows

#phpBB #BulletinBoard #Windows

   04. Install Microsoft Visual C++
   05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...
   06. Right click the downloaded phpBB .zip file ≫ Extract All...
   07. Rename the extracted phpBB3 folder phpBB
   08. Cut the phpBB folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
   09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
   12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
   13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
   14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...
   15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the phpbb database
         ./mysql -u root
         CREATE DATABASE phpbb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
         GRANT ALL ON phpbb.* TO 'phpbb_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '!!phpBB##';
         FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
         EXIT;
         exit
   17. The phpBB introduction screen should be displayed
   18. Click the Install tab
   19. Click the Install button
   20. Input an administrator username, email address and password ≫ Click Submit
   21. Enter the database hostname, username, password and database name ≫ Click Submit
   22. Click the Submit button on the Server configuration page
   23. Click the Submit button on the E-mail configuration page
   24. Enter a title and short description on the Bulletin board configuration page ≫ Click Submit
   25. When the installation completes, open XAMPP/htdocs/phpBB and rename or delete the install directory
   27. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted forum with phpBB
 

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