How to Create a Forum Website
An online forum is a terrific tool for developing a community built around your website. There's a lot of popular forum software around the Internet today, such as vBulletin, and many popular forum hosts, such as Forumotion and Forumer. The open-source forum software phpBB allows you to host forums on your own website---and it's free.
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Instructions
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Register a domain name for your website at a domain name registrar such as FreeHostia or GoDaddy (see Resources).
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Buy a web hosting package to host your website online. Hosting is available from the domain name registrars listed above and many different sites. Buy a package that includes at least one MySQL database.
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Download and extract the newest version of the phpBB Installation Package from its official website (see Resources).
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Upload every file and folder you just downloaded into the same public location on your website (such as yoursite.com/forum).
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Open a web browser and navigate to the "install" folder of wherever you put phpBB. If you put it in yoursite.com/forum, go to yoursite.com/forum/install.
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Click on the "Install" tab and follow the on-screen instructions to install phpBB. If you get stuck, you can find detailed installation instructions in INSTALL.html and README.html, in the "docs" folder.
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Find extra add-ons for your forum and different visual styles from the phpBB website (see Resources).
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Tell people to come to your site and start talking.
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Comments
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Thank you for the instructions. Is there a way of integrating it within a website created with Frontpage or Dreamweaver and so on.
