Some n00b questions

[Malux]

Hey all,
i'm an experienced developer but i do have some questions:

1. seeing what a mess fantastic is, i think i want to install phpbb manually. so. how in the world do i log to do that?

2. how do we first configure our web site (i.e. where do i drop my index.html file for example). Right now when you go to the domain you just see the cPanel login.

Thanks for the help. I'm trying to help a friend out. I've used 1and1, but this is my first time on bluehost.

Cheers,
Lux

[Zonteck]

Greetings and welcome to bluehost!


1. seeing what a mess fantastic is, i think i want to install phpbb manually. so. how in the world do i log to do that?

The easiest way to do that I guess would be to get phpbb (http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php), extract it onto your computer, and upload it where you want. (the just navigate to the install/ directory and follow the prompts.)
(A much quicker way once you become more experienced would be to just zip up all the files you want to upload and upload this zip and then get the server to extract it).

2. how do we first configure our web site (i.e. where do i drop my index.html file for example). Right now when you go to the domain you just see the cPanel login.
This ties in with 1. i guess, just upload files to your public_html/ directory with your favourite ftp client.

Hope this helps!

[Malux]

to unzip on the server and so in, wouldn't i need log in via telnet or ssh?

are we able to do so with bluehost?

[Zonteck]

Well ssh is how i'd do it now, but before i got ssh access, you can create a simple php script to do your simple server executes...


<?php
if (strip_tags($_GET['do']) == 'unzip')
shell_exec("unzip file.zip");
else
die ('Pandas are happy');
#you could change the line to 'unzip file.zip -d directory' to unzip the contents to the specified directory also
?>

then upload something like that to your server run the command and delete the php file. note that code would only unzip if you added ?do=unzip when you loaded the php file. (ie if you called the file zip you would need to call it as zip.php?do=unzip).

[Demo]

Hey all,
i'm an experienced developer but i do have some questions:

1. seeing what a mess fantastic is, i think i want to install phpbb manually. so. how in the world do i log to do that?

2. how do we first configure our web site (i.e. where do i drop my index.html file for example). Right now when you go to the domain you just see the cPanel login.

Thanks for the help. I'm trying to help a friend out. I've used 1and1, but this is my first time on bluehost.

Cheers,
Lux

http://bluehostforum.com/images/icons/icon4.gifwell assuming u already have a main site to go with the forums just log into your ftp program and make a folder called forums or forum then upload the files the the folder after doing so remove the contrib folder and install folder.

but before doing all of that open the config.php file and enter your msql info, then your set for phpbb:cool: