Need Advice on Adding a Forum

[tazpp]

Hi
I have two sites on my account, www.ps-3store.co.uk and www.talkingbaby.co.uk
PS 3store is my main account and Talking Baby is my sub domain, although they are run as two separate sites.
I recently tried to build a forum using Fantastico for Talking Baby but got the message. The installation can not be completed: This cpanel version does not support subdomain path detection.
Obviously this means I could use this method if my forum was on PS 3store but not Talking Baby.
I’m no expert and don’t know how to build a forum my-self, so is there a way round this?

Cheers Tazpp

[higge]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

I have installed forum for subdomain via Fantasico, so its possible.
But the other way is installing by manual.
You may want to look at various forum softwares from google.

Simple Machine
Phpbb3
Mybb
Anelectron

Those are free.

Vbulletin
IPB

Those are not free :)

[tazpp]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

Thanks for reply Higge


Could anyone tell me, if I installed the forum in my main demain (ps-3store) then went into my control panel and moved the folder to my sub domain (Talking Baby) would this work and give me the address I want i.e. www.talkingbaby.co.uk/forum


Cheers Tazpp

[LadyEye]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

Thanks for reply Higge


Could anyone tell me, if I installed the forum in my main demain (ps-3store) then went into my control panel and moved the folder to my sub domain (Talking Baby) would this work and give me the address I want i.e. www.talkingbaby.co.uk/forum


Cheers Tazpp

You have two accounts - one is your main domain and the other is an addon domain ... (not a sub)

You should be able to install this forum on either of your accounts ...

Choose the drop down to locate your domain - talking baby and then choose to install this in a directory called forum - the directory will be created and then you will access this the way you want to ...

[tazpp]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

Thank you for your help LadyEye

Steve

[tazpp]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

HELP
I have now installed the forum, if I type in www.talkingbaby.co.uk/forum
I get to the forum board but if I type www.talkingbaby.co.uk/forum/admin
as the set up said I get a 404. I can not get to the admin area.

[higge]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

No, you can't go that way. You'll have to login to your forums, then find "Administrator control panel". Go there, login again (possible) and then you are in your admin panel.

[tazpp]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

I have tryed that as well. Once I am logged into the forum I get Go to Administration Panel on the bottom of my pages, but this still brings up a 404

[higge]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

I can only say that try reinstalling it from cPanel, assuming you installed it from there.

Maybe someone knows better...

[tazpp]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

Right I have reinstalled, have got it working but it has to be in ps-3store
files which gives me the URL www.ps-3store.co.uk/forum not quite what I wanted but I can work with that, maybe chnge the address a bit i.e. change the file name to "talkingbaby_forum"
Thanks for input

[higge]

Re: Need Advice on Adding a Forum

But you can also install it to talkinbaby.co.uk address as well.
You can remove the old install, then install again to talkingbaby.co.uk/forum or to whatever location...