How to Install your vBulletin forums

[Palace]

This guide will teach you how to install vbulletin, please read everthing to successfully install vBulletin!



1.) You frist need you upload all your files into your file manager, then edit your config.php your config.php will look something like this,

<?php

/*======================================================================*\

|| #################################################################### ||

|| # vBulletin 3.8.2

|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # ||

|| # All PHP code in this file is ©2000-2009 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. # ||

|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # ||

|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # ||

|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # ||

|| #################################################################### ||

\*======================================================================*/

/*-------------------------------------------------------*\

| ****** NOTE REGARDING THE VARIABLES IN THIS FILE ****** |

 --------------------------------------------------------- 

| If you get any errors while attempting to connect to    |

| MySQL, you will need to email your webhost because we   |

| cannot tell you the correct values for the variables    |

| in this file.                                           |

\*-------------------------------------------------------*/

//    ****** DATABASE TYPE ******

    //    This is the type of the database server on which your vBulletin database will be located.

    //    Valid options are mysql and mysqli, for slave support add _slave.  Try to use mysqli if you are using PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 

    // for slave options just append _slave to your preferred database type.

$config['Database']['dbtype'] = '[color=red]Database Type[/color]';

 

    //    ****** DATABASE NAME ******

    //    This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located.

    //    This must be created by your webhost. $config['Database']['dbname'] = '[color=red]database name[/color]';

    //    ****** TABLE PREFIX ******

    //    Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database.

$config['Database']['tableprefix'] = 'vb_';

 

    //    ****** TECHNICAL EMAIL ADDRESS ******

    //    If any database errors occur, they will be emailed to the address specified here.

    //    Leave this blank to not send any emails when there is a database error.

$config['Database']['technicalemail'] = '[color=red]Email[/color]';

    //    ****** FORCE EMPTY SQL MODE ******

    // New versions of MySQL (4.1 ) have introduced some behaviors that are

    // incompatible with vBulletin. Setting this value to "true" disables those

    // behaviors. You only need to modify this value if vBulletin recommends it.

$config['Database']['force_sql_mode'] = false;

 

 

 

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE SERVER NAME AND PORT ******

    //    This is the hostname or IP address and port of the database server.

    //    If you are unsure of what to put here, leave the default values.

$config['MasterServer']['servername'] = '[color=red]database typec[/color]';

$config['MasterServer']['port'] = 3306;

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ******

    //    This is the username and password you use to access MySQL.

    //    These must be obtained through your webhost.

$config['MasterServer']['username'] = '[color=red]Database Name[/color]';

$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '[color=redDatabase password[/color]';

 

    //    ****** MASTER DATABASE PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS ******

    //    This option allows you to turn persistent connections to MySQL on or off.

    //    The difference in performance is negligible for all but the largest boards.

    //    If you are unsure what this should be, leave it off. (0 = off; 1 = on)

$config['MasterServer']['usepconnect'] = 1;

    //    ****** SLAVE DATABASE CONFIGURATION ******

    //    If you have multiple database backends, this is the information for your slave

    //    server. If you are not 100% sure you need to fill in this information,

    //    do not change any of the values here.

$config['SlaveServer']['servername'] = '[color=red]Database type[/color]';

$config['SlaveServer']['port'] = 3306;

$config['SlaveServer']['username'] = '[color=red]database username[/color]';

$config['SlaveServer']['password'] = '[color=red]Database password[/color]';

$config['SlaveServer']['usepconnect'] = 0;

The words in color red is where you need to edit it to your database, type, username, password.



2.) Then you need to go to your forums/install/install.php and click it, you will see this page, http://i31.tinypic.com/209nibr.gif | Then follow the rest of the installion instruction it tells you once you finished delete your install.php, then you will be in your administator control panel which will look like this, http://i26.tinypic.com/25u1ixf.jpg

Now you have your own vBulletin forums!

I also made this for my forums this only works for license users with vbulletin (paid vBulletin)

 

[Kino]

This could come in very handy one day! Thanks!