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    Set up and Host your phpBB forum on QNAP NAS


"Host your own community forum on QNAP"

Save your bucks on hosting company

Think it's difficult and costly to setup your own community forum? Not any more, and this guide will demonstrate within a few steps you can have your community forum setup and going online right away. Note that we will be using the popular open source forum software phpbb as an example here.


Activate the web server and the MySQL database server

Login to the administration page and then go to 'Network Services' > 'Web Server'. Tick the checkbox 'Enable Web server' and click on 'Apply'.

Next go to 'Applications' > 'MySQL Server' and tick both 'Enable MySQL Server' and 'Enable TCP/IP Networking' checkboxes then click on the 'Apply' botton.

Create a database for phpBB3 in phpMyAdmin

Prior to installing phpBB3, we need to create a new database for it and we will use phpMyAdmin to create the database so install phpMyAdmin QPKG if you do not have it running on your NAS yet. (phpMyAdmin QPKG can be downloaded from here) Once installed point your broswer to http://NAS-IP-Adress/phpMyAdmin/ and enter the user name and password to login (default username and password is root/admin). You can also select your preferred language.

Once in, enter the database name 'phpbb3' in the field says 'Create new database' and choose a default encoding language you prefer (UTF-8 for best compatibility) then click on 'Create' button. That's it you may now proceed to step 3.

Start the phpBB3 web-based installation

Download the phpbb3 source archive from this URL (http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/olympus.php) and download the [Full Package] one and unzip it to your Qweb share.

Point your browser to "http://Your-NAS-IP/phpBB3" and you should see the phpBB3 web-based installation page like below. Now click on 'INSTALL' tab to start.

Simply click on 'Proceed to next step' button to go to the next step.

In most of the cases your current web server should be compatible with the requirements so click on the 'Start install' button to go the next step.

Fill up the fields with your MySQL information including the hostname, database name, database username and database password then click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

You should see 'Successful connection' if your MySQL server is running and the database 'phpbb3' we created earlier is present. Now click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

Specify the phpBB3 administrator username and password as well as a valid email address. Once done, click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

You should see 'Tests passed' and click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

phpBB3 writes all the settings information to a configuration file (config.php) at this stage. Click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

Here you can specify advanced settings if you wish then click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

phpBB3 creates all the database tables and populates some initial data at this stage. Click on 'Proceed to next step' to continue.

Congratulations! That's it. Now there's one more thing you need to do is that you have to delete the installation folder located under the phpBB3 folder. Once deleted you can click on 'Login' button to enter the administration page of phpBB3.

This is the phpBB3 Administration Control Panel where you can perform all administrative tasks.

This is the front page of your freshly installed phpBB3 forum. Start sending out forum invitations to establish your online community!

 
 
 
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