PhpBB Tutorials

If for some reason you want to archive the current state of your forum that is powered by the phpBB2 message board system, you should first login to your administrative area. There are a few options how to create your backup:

In order to change the template of your forum, you will first need to download the desired template's files to your local computer. They usually come as a compressed file, so make sure you unpack that on your machine. The result should be a folder…

You can also set up individual privileges to users. To do that, please follow the Permissions link in the User Admin menu. Type in the username you would like the change the privileges for and click the Look up User button.

Next thing to do is creating groups in your forum. These are needed when you would like to differentiate user privileges, like giving moderator privileges to certain users. To start that, select the Management link in the Group admin section. You will need to create…

In phpBB there are options to create new categories and forums, or to edit the existing ones. First off, let's turn the Test category into a live one. Click the Edit link that is on the same line as the category name.

In order to add a new smilies (a.k.a. emoticons) you should first login to your administrative area. Usually the administrative area can be found in a subdirectory named 'admin',so if your message board is being hosted on http://example.com/phpbb, the administrative interface should be on http://example.com/phpbb/admin/.

In order to start managing your forum, please visit the administration panel. The address looks like this: http://yourdomain.com/forum/admin/

To start the installation process, please log in to your your cPanel. The cPanel Button is located in your customer area under Manage Account. Once in cPanel, look for the smiling face icon of Fantastico () and click it.