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How to Install phpBB on Your Website

By Angela Bradley, About.com

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Finishing Up

Screenshot of phpBB

Screenshot of phpBB

Now when you go to you www.yoursite.com (or yoursite.com/forum, or wherever you choose to install your forum) you will see a message saying "Please ensure both the install/ and contrib/ directories are deleted". You need to FTP into your site again, and find these folders. Just delete the entire folders, and all of their contents.

Your forum should now be functional! To get started using it, login with the username & password that you created when you ran the install file. At the bottom of the page you should see a link that says "Go to Administration Panel". This will let you preform Admin options such as adding new forums, changing the forum name, etc. Your account also let's you post just like a normal user.

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