What is PunBB #
PunBB is the discussion board. It is lightweight PHP-powered software using which you can build a discussion board. It has fewer features as compared to other discussion boards. Its main goal is to provide a fast, less graphical intensive, and small-size discussion board. The software is worked under the GNU license so it’s completely free anyone can use it for their use. Many of the forums use it.
Uses of PunBB #
- Discussion boards
- Forums
- Community forums
System requirements of PunBB #
- PHP
- Php 5 or above
- Webserver
- Apache
- Database
- MySQL 4.1.2 or later
- PostgreSQL 7.0 or later
- SQLite 2
Features of PunBB #
- More no of moderators
- bad characters are stripped out from the text input
- More customizable styles
Installation of PunBB #
For installation of the PunBB, there are 2 methods to install it you can use anyone from it for installation purposes. The methods are as follows.
- Installation using softaculous app installer
- Manual installation
Installation using a softaculous app installer #
To install PunBB on your hosting automatically using softaculous you must follow steps.
Step1: login to your Hostrik hosting Cpanel, go to the software section and click on softaclulous app installer, a new window will open of softaculous.
Step2: in the search box of the softaculous app installer type PunBB and press enter, the installation window will open.
Step3: click the install button from the window, then a new installation window will open in which you have to fill in the information.
Step4: in the 4th step of software setup select the protocol of your website (HTTP:// or HTTPS://), the domain, and the directory where you are installing the board.
Step5: the next step is site settings you have to decide your site name and give the site description.
Step6: In the next step, the account setting selects the username of your admin account and password for it ( make sure the password should be strong).
Step7: In the next step, choose the board’s database and also backup for it then click install to install.
Manual installation #
To install PunBB manually you have to perform the following steps. The steps are as follows steps are divided into 3 parts
- File configuration
- Database creation
- PunBB Configuration
File configuration
Step1: go to the official website of PunBB and go to the download section of it https://punbb.informer.com/downloads.php click to download the file in zip format.
Step2: open file manager and in public_html upload the file and extract it.
Database creation
To create a database for your board you have to create the database. To create the database you have to perform the following steps
Step1: first you have to create the database, to create a database click on MySQL database.
Step2: in create a database write the name of the database and click create, the database will be created.
Step3: In the next step, you have to create a user to the database, for that in add user to the database, Add username and password and click add user.
Step3: in step 3 give all privileges to the user.
PunBB Configuration
Step1: go to the URL you want to install PunBB you will see the welcome window.
Step2: In the first part you have to configure the database which you have created in the above step, give the server name and name of the database then give the username and password for the database.
Step3: In the next step, you have to create an administration account for the board control. Give the username password for account creation and also the email of the account owner.
Step4: you have to set up the forum URL select the URL you want for the forum then hit install.
Step5: Here you will see the installation of PunnBB is successful.