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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?

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.

no, no luck there.

this is what the page looks like:

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

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?

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.

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.

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.