good CHEAP forum software?

[Callipygous]

my buddy wants forums on his site, i suggested the software we use here, then i discovered it was a bit out of the desired budget. is there good cheap/free forum software? opensource maybe?

[RyanJ]

my buddy wants forums on his site, i suggested the software we use here, then i discovered it was a bit out of the desired budget. is there good cheap/free forum software? opensource maybe?

 

phpBB is free and open source

SMF is annother good one.

YaBB is another good system and again its free.

 

Here are the wo paid one si know:

 

VBulletin - expensive (This forum uses this software).

IPB - not as expensive but still quite pricey.

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones

[rakuenso]

is VB a one time fee or a yearly subscription fee?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

You can go either way.

 

And RyanJ, YaBB is actually an older version of SMF, so I wouldn't bother with that.

 

There's also MyBB although it's not quite at 1.0 yet.

[Callipygous]

i need some help.

 

my friend is paying for a domain from godaddy.com

 

we want to host forums on it. right now we are just going for anything, hes thinking about buying better stuff later. i was thinking of learning to install and use this one http://www.phpbb.com

 

it mentions "your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers"

and i found this in the account management area of the domain we purchased:

# of SQL Server Databases: 0 Setup of 1 Available

# of MySQL Databases: 0 Setup of 25 Available

 

what do i need to set up to get it to work? it asks me if i want to use "DSN" but i dont know what that is, much less if i want to use it or not.

 

-the lost one

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

DSN is only if you're using ODBC, and if you don't know what that is, don't bother filling that in.

 

You need one MySQL database preferably. Create it with whatever name you'd like in the host's control panel, then fill that in in the phpBB installer.

[5614]

There have been a few threads similar to this... use search to get more relevant threads.

[Callipygous]

There have been a few threads similar to this... use search to get more relevant threads.

 

yeah... when i was looking for this thread i searched for "forum software" (without the quotes), and was irritated that it didnt even find this thread. note that "forum software" is in the title : P

[Callipygous]

turns out my buddy already uploaded WSN forums, now im working on installing it and it tells me this:

 

"Your languages directory is not writable, so the language file cannot be copied. Either the directory is not chmoded to 777 or the server permissions do not allow a file to be copied (most likely php is running in safe mode). You will have to manually move the file /languages/setup/languages/setup/englishonly.lng to /languages/default.lng in order to select your languages properly.Your config.php file is not writeable. Please chmod 666 or 777 the file config.php and try again."

 

help?

 

when right clicking on the file it informs me "this server does not support changing file permissions"

am i SOL?

[Klaynos]

Do you have ssh access to the host?

 

If not then you might not be able to do anything about it past emailing the host and asking them why you can't change permissions over ftp :|

[Callipygous]

i dont know what SSH is or where i would look to see if i have it.

 

ive found a place on the host's site that will let me change the permissions on directories. i told it to give both of the above locations read, write, "browse" and "web" permissions. those are all the available check boxes besides "reset" which they say puts everything back to defaults. after doing this i still get the same error message.