VBulletin Forums?

[JMan]

Thinking of using BlueHost for my domain host. Do they offer VBulletin Forums?

[hofmax]

No, you need to by the Vbulletin license. But they do run on bluehost. All you need is PHP/MySQL.

[voter]

To have vBulletin installed without problems one need a
php.ini on host in public_html with following content

; any text on a line after an unquoted semicolon (;) is ignored
[php] ; section markers (text within square brackets) are also ignored
; Boolean values can be set to either:
; true, on, yes
; or false, off, no, none
;register_globals = off
magic_quotes_gpc = off

As well copy it in all subfolderd of public_html. It could be done via creating copyphpinieverywhere.php file in public_html with content
<pre><?php system("find * -type d|xargs -i cp --verbose php.ini {}/."); ?></pre>COMPLETE!
and then calling it from http://mydomain.com/copyphpinieverywhere.php

[fwerginz]

I am considering the same for a site I'd like to bring to Bluehost. The site currently uses Infopop but it appears that vBulletin is much more robust. If anyone has any thoughts they'd like to share on using vBulletin, I would be grateful. I really don't want to spend the money for a license unless I know it's something that requires little involvement of developers. I'm looking for forum software that allows non-techies to manage the content.

Also, when installing vBulletin on a Bluehost server, is it correct to assume that I would need telnet access as well as some king of root privilage?

Thanks,
Fred

[sXi]

...when installing vBulletin on a Bluehost server, is it correct to assume that I would need telnet access as well as some king of root privilage?
Telnet is not required.. FTP to upload the files and http to the installation script.



If anyone has any thoughts they'd like to share on using vBulletin, I would be grateful. I'm looking for forum software that allows non-techies to manage the content.
vBulletin is the last forum I'd install for 'non-techies'.
The simplest 'robust' forum to manage in my opinion is phpBB2 and it can be installed with ease (and for free!) using Fantastico from your cPanel.

[fwerginz]

Telnet is not required.. FTP to upload the files and http to the installation script.



vBulletin is the last forum I'd install for 'non-techies'.
The simplest 'robust' forum to manage in my opinion is phpBB2 and it can be installed with ease (and for free!) using Fantastico from your cPanel.

Thanks for your reply. Took your advise and deployed phpBB2. With all the add-ons available, I haven't found anything that vBulletin has that phpBB2 doesn't. I've installed several things such as calendar, album and ezPortal.

My only worry with phpBB2 is that if/when it's time to upgrade, those add-ons are going to require a lot of work.

[tHE_bEAST]

Thanks for your reply. Took your advise and deployed phpBB2. With all the add-ons available, I haven't found anything that vBulletin has that phpBB2 doesn't. I've installed several things such as calendar, album and ezPortal.

My only worry with phpBB2 is that if/when it's time to upgrade, those add-ons are going to require a lot of work.

yeap, you configure all, inserted to source code so called "modules", and when comes the securety upgrade, or next version :eek:
Yeap, you have to edit this over again.

[GTOOOOOH]

vB is the best, hands down, and the hacks community www.vbulletin.org is second to none.

I've used vB for years, this is my most recent board.

www.amacny.com

[photogmomma]

Love vBulletin (new to it and BlueHost), but my site is incredibly slow and I'm getting frustrated. I only have a few users on it and although it's never gone down, my users are migrating back to the old (crummy) system because at least the pages load in less than 30 seconds.

I want to find out if this is typical. you probably should, too.

[GTOOOOOH]

Try my site out, it flies, and I have tons of custom work I did to it which should only slow it down in theory.