How Easy?

[Uphoreka]

How easy for you to setup a successful forum using a web hosting?

 

[Fergal]

Sniper, many web hosts have cPanel with Fantastico installed. This allows you to install PHPBB with a couple of clicks from the control panel. Do you know if your host has Fantastico?

 

[Uphoreka]

My host has Fantastico. I'm just curious.

 

[Expired Account]

Everything's easy as long as you can install mods and styles etc. It does take a lot of work to get everything set up though but its worth it 😉

 

[Callum93]

@Fergal: I wouldn't recommend Fantastico. It can result in some errors from installation and I'm pretty sure phpbb.com does not give support to boards that are installed by Fantastico.

To set the board up properly, it is reasonably easy presuming you know what you're doing, but when you take into account the time spent installing MODs, Styles, setting up forums and then assigning permissions, as well as starting topics in all sections so members have something to discuss when the form opens... it is quite time consuming.

Not hard, but time consuming.

 

[Expired Account]

I second not recommending Fantastico. I used it on my very first forum and none of the topic buttons showed. Also I think phpBB does give support 😉

 

[Cosmic]

I used a script installer once, it was installatron. Later I converted to MyBB so I just uploaded the files via FileZilla as well as the converting script.

Mods are easy for me as I use MyBB, so I only have to upload one file and sometimes 3 or 4 and occasionally add something simple to a template to get it to work. No file editing. Ever.

 

[Fergal]

Thanks for the feedback on Fantastico. I wasn't aware that there were any issues with it. I've used it to install WP a few times and it always worked perfectly.

 

[Ascent]

I use Fantastico to install my SMF forums all the time. I have no problems whatsoever, and I've been doing it for the past year.

Can't say the same for phpBB though, as others are suggesting otherwise.

 

[Expired Account]

I've installed a few other software's from fantastico and worked okay for me, its just phpBB3 that's never worked with it.

 

[AnAccount]

I've installed a few other software's from fantastico and worked okay for me, its just phpBB3 that's never worked with it.

I was on advanced hosting for a brief period and I used Fantastico as well. I don't recall ever having problems with it. I can't remember what softwares worked and what didn't, that's the only thing.

 

[Fergal]

Have we answered your questions WrT, or do you need further info and feedback?

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Sbfc, phpBB doesn't know if you installed it with Fantastico. There's no way to tell.

 

[Callum93]

Sbfc, phpBB doesn't know if you installed it with Fantastico. There's no way to tell.

I think with some of the forums installed with Fantastico, it does have copyright with .fr domains which you cannot remove and suggests it is a Fantastico installation.

Also as for SMF, I installed it with Fantastico once and the new topic/post reply images didn't appear.