OK, from the beginning.
I already have a website that is hosted on GoDaddy and I want to add a forum to the site. SiteGround has the follwing instructions for that:
If you want the forum to be just a part of your website, but not its main page then you can put it into a subfolder. The most used names of this folder are board, bboard, forum, phorum, community, but you are not narrowed to these names, you can have whatever you want for your forum. Then the URL for your forum will be: http://www.yourdomainname.com/directoryname. (e.g. http://forum.siteground.com/)
I created a folder called 'forum' in the main file directory on the server. Then, I uploaded the entire VBull 'upload' folder to that forum folder I created.
I renamed the config file to config.php and opened it up to edit the following:
Editing of the 'config.php' file is the most important part of vBulletin's installation. First, you have to enter the name of the MySQL database that you have created:
The line should be looking as follows:
$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';
Here I entered forum in the place of 'dbname' where the upload folder is located
Then, you have to enter the database username that you have created:
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root';
The 'username' is my SiteGround user name
The last value that is important to be edited is the password:
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '';
The 'password' is my password on SiteGround.
The next step is to install VBull:
As most of the PHP-based applications, vBulletin forum installation is done in a "Step by step" mode. To launch it, please open your favorite web browser and point it to: http://yourdomainname.com/install/install.php. Replace yourdomainname.com with your actual domain name.
I entered http://www.fxtradeblog.com/install/install.php and I get the 'OOPS page can't be found' error.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here...
Any suggestions?
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