A tutorial on how to install MyBB onto your website.
What you'll need:
What you'll need:
- A domain
- Hosting
- FileZilla, or any other FTP software.
- The MyBB files to upload into the FTP
How to:
1) Open up your FTP and connect to your domain.
2) Go in your directory. Usually 'public_html' or something similar.
3) Find your MyBB .rar file you downloaded from http://www.MyBB.com/ .
4) Extract it. Once done, open the folder up. It will have 2 folders. Open up the folder named 'Upload'.
5) Select all of the files by either highlighting them all, or press Ctrl + A on your keyboard.
6) Drag and drop all of the files into your FTP. At the bottom left corner of your FTP, you should see something like this:
7) Wait for all 790 queued files to finish uploading. Once finished uploading, go to http://YourDomain.com/install. You should see a page similar to this :
8) Keep clicking
until you see the following page:
9) Fill out the fields with the correct information. Remember, every site and domain has different information for this.
10) Once done, click
and it should take you to a page similar to this:
11) Keep clicking
until you reach this page:
All of the fields should be filled out for you. It's your choice on whether you want to change the 'Website Name', 'Forum Name', and 'Contact Email'.
12) Once done, click
and it should take you to this page:
This is where you fill your log-in details.
13) Click
and you're done!
I hope you found this useful.
If you ever need any help, or didn't understand this tutorial, PM me and I shall get back to you with an answer!
Also, let me know if I left anything out!
1) Open up your FTP and connect to your domain.
2) Go in your directory. Usually 'public_html' or something similar.
3) Find your MyBB .rar file you downloaded from http://www.MyBB.com/ .
4) Extract it. Once done, open the folder up. It will have 2 folders. Open up the folder named 'Upload'.
5) Select all of the files by either highlighting them all, or press Ctrl + A on your keyboard.
6) Drag and drop all of the files into your FTP. At the bottom left corner of your FTP, you should see something like this:
7) Wait for all 790 queued files to finish uploading. Once finished uploading, go to http://YourDomain.com/install. You should see a page similar to this :
8) Keep clicking
9) Fill out the fields with the correct information. Remember, every site and domain has different information for this.
10) Once done, click
11) Keep clicking
All of the fields should be filled out for you. It's your choice on whether you want to change the 'Website Name', 'Forum Name', and 'Contact Email'.
12) Once done, click
This is where you fill your log-in details.
13) Click
I hope you found this useful.
If you ever need any help, or didn't understand this tutorial, PM me and I shall get back to you with an answer!
Also, let me know if I left anything out!
Excuse the messiness of the thread. I will tidy it up soon enough and have it look much better.
