Topic: How do you actually install the tinybbs software?

+Anonymous A — 4.3 years ago #61,499

I used to know how to do it, but like there is no install.php file or anything.

+Anonymous B — 4.3 years ago, 5 hours later[T] [B] #624,204

Unless r04r still posts on MC, which I doubt since she sold it, you're probably SOL if the git doesn't explain it.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 4.3 years ago, 6 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #624,208

@previous (B)
I miss r04r. ;_;

Who did she sell the site to? tteh?

+Anonymous C — 4.3 years ago, 4 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[T] [B] #624,211

Here is the README from version 0.3 (I doubt the process has changed much if you managed to get hold of a later version)

============================
INSTALLATION
============================

Your host must have PHP version 5.2 or greater. To check your host's version of PHP, create a page called test.php with the content "<?php echo phpversion() ?>". If it's less than 5.2, do not install ATBBS.

- Create a MySQL database. Navigate to the database in phpmyadmin. Click the "import" tab and, as the file to import, select INSTALL.sql from the zip. Click Go.
- Edit the database details in /includes/config.php. For example, if your database is named 'durrbbs', change line 8 to 'database' => 'durrbbs' .
- Edit the other settings in config.php. In particular, change the DOMAIN definition to your domain.
- Upload the ATBBS files (except INSTALL.sql) to your root public directory.
- Go to the back up ID page (yourdomain.com/back_up_ID). Replace ADMIN ID HERE in config.php with the ID found on that page. You are now the administrator.

============================
NOTES
============================

- File encoding must always be UTF-8 _without BOM_. I recommend modifying files with Notepad++.
- If image uploading is enabled, /img/ and /thumbs/ need to be chmodded to 777. Your FTP client can do this.

·Anonymous B — 4.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #624,212

@previous (C)
That's for ATBBS which was really easy to set up. TinyBBS which was (re)written from scratch by r04r had some sort of automated setup I think.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 4.3 years ago, 9 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #624,218

@previous (B)
Wait, so what was MiniBBS?

·Anonymous A (OP) — 4.3 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #624,222

@624,211 (C)
Unable to establish a link to the database.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 4.3 years ago, 30 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #624,223

@624,211 (C)
lol Made a post and now it says database error.

·Anonymous B — 4.3 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #624,225

@624,218 (A)
Actually I might be confusing the two. It's possible MiniBBS was the one with the automated setup.

+Anonymous D — 4.3 years ago, 15 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #624,237

I thought
Of a good rap today wanna hear it

·Anonymous A (OP) — 4.3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #624,238

@previous (D)
Go on.

·Anonymous D — 4.3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #624,239

@624,237 (D)
> I thought
> Of a good rap today wanna hear it

FUCK FUCK FUCKERS

·Anonymous C — 4.3 years ago, 11 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #624,246

@624,223 (A)
I forgot to add, you also need to know what you're doing with the LAMP stack.

If you don't know how to create a MySQL database & user and grant permissions etc. then you need to learn that stuff before you start.

·Anonymous C — 4.3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #624,247

@624,225 (B)
> Actually I might be confusing the two. It's possible MiniBBS was the one with the automated setup.
Yes, MiniBBS has an install.php, which basically runs the MySQL script for you.
https://github.com/Dalloway/MiniBBS

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