phpBB - Novice User Alert

Andrew Muir · Fri 07 May, 2004 21.13

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?

Neil Jones · Fri 07 May, 2004 21.55

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 · Fri 07 May, 2004 22.14

no, no luck there.

this is what the page looks like:

http://www.freepgs.com/server01/Forum/i ... nstall.php

Chris · Fri 07 May, 2004 23.17

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 · Sat 08 May, 2004 06.12

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 · Sat 08 May, 2004 09.54

Andrew Muir wrote:http://www.freepgs.com/server01/Forum/i ... nstall.php

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 · Sat 08 May, 2004 11.36

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.