Any help will be greatly appreciated!
I want to build my own forum although I have zero knowledge on how to set one up.
I’ve read through some of the information in the FAQ’s, but I still don’t have a clue as to what all needs to be done, or more to the point, how to actually do it.
First, I’ve already got a domain name through Google.
So next, it appears that I need to find a web server and enter into an agreement for an entry level amount of bandwidth and forum hosting?
Then I need to get PHP and MySQL, which I presume is a matter of doing a search to find their websites and then I download both of them? Would that be to my desktop?
Then the directions refer to “creating a database within the MySQL engine to hold vBulletin's data”. Hopefully running the MySQL will prompt me to do all that with language that I can understand?
Then I need to buy a vBulletin license, after which I can download it. This would be to my desktop?
Then I go back to the web server and upload whatever I got from vBulletin, and then I “run the installer script” which I presume will be just a matter of following directions?
Now if I make it though all of that, I take it that I will be viewing the forum framework and that it is located, not on my computer, but on the web server???
So then I would set up the forums the way I want it?
Now once I’m ready for the forum to go online for public view, how do it get it linked with my domain name url, or is that all taken care of in the set up?
I want to build my own forum although I have zero knowledge on how to set one up.
I’ve read through some of the information in the FAQ’s, but I still don’t have a clue as to what all needs to be done, or more to the point, how to actually do it.
First, I’ve already got a domain name through Google.
So next, it appears that I need to find a web server and enter into an agreement for an entry level amount of bandwidth and forum hosting?
Then I need to get PHP and MySQL, which I presume is a matter of doing a search to find their websites and then I download both of them? Would that be to my desktop?
Then the directions refer to “creating a database within the MySQL engine to hold vBulletin's data”. Hopefully running the MySQL will prompt me to do all that with language that I can understand?
Then I need to buy a vBulletin license, after which I can download it. This would be to my desktop?
Then I go back to the web server and upload whatever I got from vBulletin, and then I “run the installer script” which I presume will be just a matter of following directions?
Now if I make it though all of that, I take it that I will be viewing the forum framework and that it is located, not on my computer, but on the web server???
So then I would set up the forums the way I want it?
Now once I’m ready for the forum to go online for public view, how do it get it linked with my domain name url, or is that all taken care of in the set up?
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