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Andrew Muir
Posts: 61
Joined: Thu 21 Aug, 2003 19.24

I'm trying to get some knowlege of Forums and decided to have a bash at phpBB. I've uploaded it and the install page looks like goble-de-gook.
Probably not how it should look!!

Other people on the freepgs.com server have phpBB installed so it must support it.

Any Ideas?
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Neil Jones
Posts: 661
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2003 20.03
Location: West Midlands

Upload all files that aren't images as ASCII in your FTP programme, especially those with a .php extension. Images (gifs, jpegs) go as Binary. If in doubt, upload as ASCII.
Andrew Muir
Posts: 61
Joined: Thu 21 Aug, 2003 19.24

no, no luck there.

this is what the page looks like:

http://www.freepgs.com/server01/Forum/i ... nstall.php
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Chris
Posts: 845
Joined: Fri 15 Aug, 2003 19.03
Location: Surrey

Andrew Muir wrote:no, no luck there.

this is what the page looks like:

http://www.freepgs.com/server01/Forum/i ... nstall.php
Perhaps the PHP is buggered on their servers? :?
Martin
Posts: 386
Joined: Sat 09 Aug, 2003 20.01
Location: U.K.

Have you tried removing it all and re-installing? Print out the installation guide and even highlight parts until you understand it all - its what I had to do. At this stage is could only really be a php problem as mentioned or something you might have missed when uploading the files.

In my experience the problems (if any), server side, occur after you start entering details into that page so it doesn't appear to be that.
Neil Jones
Posts: 661
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2003 20.03
Location: West Midlands

That is the PHP code itself; it's not been processed by the PHP engine.

But looking at http://www.freepgs.com/faqs/howtos/scripting/index.php it looks like you have to enable PHP yourself from the link on that page.
Andrew Muir
Posts: 61
Joined: Thu 21 Aug, 2003 19.24

Yeah, I've done that - maybe I'll do it again!!
I'll ask some of the people on their support forum.

I do reccomend freepgs.com for hosting however - its very good. very reliable.

Thanks anyway for your help.
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