Posted June 24, 200520 yr Hey everyone, I know I haven't really posted in a while, but now I'm back and I need some help I'm trying to setup my own forum like this, vBulletin looks like the way to go. Is there any way to do this for free and how hard is the installation for all of this? TAC seems to have done a really nice job on their forums, and I was wondering if you could help me out on setting up my own forums
June 25, 200520 yr vBulleten is okay. The current leader without a doubt is Invision Power Board. You can use a CMS (Content Management System) that have forums inside them, but they're not really good / feature lacking, however they really give you that intergrated feel and user friendlyness (don't have to re-reg) So, what are your selections? Simple, XMBForum / PHPBB / Yabb (in that order of quailty) All are free and work great! I recommend you just use e107 (CMS with loads of features) I used to use it on my website but now, I use just flatout phpbb. You can trust me with this becasue I was / is in your situation, after IPB went paid, I'v been looking around VIA google / sourceforge to find forums. Installing forums are simple as hell, honstly. As long as you have Apache / PHP / MySQL set up (or if your getting hosting, they will have it setup already) you just need to run the script installer, which is extremely user friendly so you need not worry. Anyways good luck, PM / make a new thread if you need help.
June 25, 200520 yr Just read some replies... DO NOT use PHPNuke/Postnuke, it's becoming relic and unstable (bugs / security issues / optimization / ect ect) IMHO, it's starting to become garbage. Look for a better CMS (recommending e107) I run my site(s) on my own computer and the only thing I pay for is my name (r5a.org) but you can get somthing like yourname.host.com for free, so yeah, essentaly everything can be free Good luck!
June 25, 200520 yr hmm i am his personal assistant and i just installed postnuke ! but i will look around for e107
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