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phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP programming language. The name “phpBB” is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software. 48 translations are available for phpBB2 as of 2007.

Main Website: http://phpbb.com/

Demo Website: http://styles.phpbb2.de/

Support forums: http://www.phpbb.com/community/

Step1: Open up phpbb’s main website and download phpbb2 latest release.

Step 2: Extract the contents of the archive and upload the content of the phpbb2 folder to your webserver using a FTP client like SmartFTP.

Step 3: Go to phpMyAdmin and create an empty database named phpbb.

Step 4: Chmod config.php to 777 using your ftp client.

Point your browser to http://yourwebsite.com/phpbb/install/install.php where you will have to fill in the mysql connection details.

Make sure you select MySQL 4x/5x because all webhosts have it installed, and mysql 3.x is old and at the installation method select Install.

After the installation is complete chmod config.php back to 644 and delete the install and contrib folders!

Thats it! phpbb2 was successfully installed on your server. Now you can login and head over to your admin panel where you can manage your forum. because phpbb is a very popular forum software you will find plenty of skins and mods to customize it