Help wannt a forum

denilson2 · Post by **denilson2** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:54

Hey guys, ill need some help, ill got a website with my own domain name, but how do ill add a forum to it, without its a link to a website, were it says www.thewebsite.com/myprofilename.

Plz help

My webhotel browser looks like this

Post by **Chroelle** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 22:26

If I undertand you correctly then you want it like:
www.forum.yourwebsitesname.dk (example)
That is done by creating a subdomain. You can find that at your host, if you are allowed to create subdomains. How much knowledge do you have about hosting and uploading websites?
- Alot
- Somewhat
- little
- none

This would help with explaining.

Am I understanding you correctly first of all?

denilson2 · Post by **denilson2** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:05

yea u understand me right, but i can't make subdomains. So if i can't make a forum without making a subdomain, then ill just change webhotel. This one i just won from Microsoft. And its a bad webhotel they have, but its free for me. But can i make a forum without making an subdomain

Post by **Chroelle** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:00

Sure you can, but it will be: www.yourdomain.dk/forum or you can of course set the forum frontpage to be your frontpage. That would mean that the forum frontpage would be found on www.yourdomain.dk

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 14:05

Sorry, wrong Thread

denilson2 · Post by **denilson2** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 19:35

ok, chrølle, but how do i make one, who is www.mydomain.org/forum

Dizi · Post by **Dizi** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 21:10

you would create a page and name it "forum" and when it is on your site it would be located at

www.mydomain.org/forum

However most forums use server side scripting such as PHP, so you have to make sure that your hosting company allows you to use this scripting, as some will not.

For more reading information on serverside scripting click here

If your hosting allows such scripting then you will be able to download a forum that you can set up. For example the core of this forum is built using phpbb but there are many others out there.

I am not totally up on all the forums that you can use, some may not require Server side scripting but all the ones that I know of do. So someone else might be able to help you with that

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 21:20

All forums require some server side scripting, data (text, images etc.) users input need to be handled. Most of the forums also need a database where this information is stored. In theory it is possible to store the data in files, but it is quite unsafe, and I am quite sure that it is not possible with any common forum engines. The most usual database hosts offer is MySQL. If your host supports mysql and php, then almost any generally available forum engine is available for you. (some forums may be built to work with CGI scripting . not with php though).

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:40

To say this short. You have to make sure that your host supports PHP and MySQL. You should have permission to make at least one database.
This forum is a phpBB2 forum. You can learn alot about them on http://www.phpbb2.dk/forum/ (Danish)
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