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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demo123" data-source="post: 723725" data-attributes="member: 37252">Here are a couple of simple steps on how to run your vB on your PC:Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc... <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download the newest version of PHPTriad (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9325&package_id=9390%29" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=93  90)</a>.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is a very easy to use all-in-one pack.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Run the .exe, and let the installer do the job for you.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now go to C:\apache\mysql\bin\, and run winmysqladmin.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If, and it probably will, it asks you for a password, enter root as password, and password as password.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goto your start menu > PHPtriad > Apache Console > Stop Apache</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now go to start menu > PHPtriad > Apache Console > Start Apache<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Note: Do NOT select "Restart Apache".</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, Apache will pop up in a new window.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Simply minimize it.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Do NOT close it!</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, open up c:\apache\htdocs\phpmyadmin\config.inc.php.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find: $cfgServers[1]['password']      = '';</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Between the '' tags, enter "password" WITHOUT the quotes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Save & Close</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, your "webpage" is available at <a href="http://localhost/" target="_blank">http://localhost</a>!</li> </ul>Ok, nowthat we've installed and configured everything, we can start with the actuall vBulletin install!Installing your vBulletin <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Look at your task menu, and right click the traffic light icon.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click "Show me"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, go to the databases tab.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Right click on the "Test" database</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click "Create Database".</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the window which just opened, enter the exact name which you gave to your online database. (If you're installing a new vBulletin forum on your local PC, you may call it anything you want. Do remember what you call it though).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click "Create the Database" once you've entered a name.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click "OK" on the error box which just poped up.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, press cancel, and it should bring you back to the databases tab.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, you have 2 options.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Follow these steps if you want to install a NEW vBULLETIN, if not, simply scroll down.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download a new vBulletin copy from the members area.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Extract it to: c:\apache\htdocs\forum</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Open up c:\apache\htdocs\forum\includes\config.php.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Set the the servername to "localhost" (without quotes)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Set NO dbusername and NO dbuserpassword!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Set the database name to the name of the database you created a couple of steps above.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now install vBulletin, and follow vBulletin's steps.</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Follow these steps if you want to install your online vBulletin Board on your PC.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download your vBulletin files from your FTP</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Download you Database from your host.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rename your database file to vbulletin.sql</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go to <a href="http://localhost/phpmyadmin" target="_blank">http://localhost/phpmyadmin</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go to the database you created a couple of steps ago.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click the "import" tab.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find this text: "Or Location of the textfile :" (without quotes)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bellow it, there should be a "browse" button.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Click it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Browse to your vbulletin.sql file, and select it</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now, click the "Go" button. ONLY CLICK THIS ONCE</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Get yourself a cup of coffee, because this might take a while.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When its done, it will most likely say "No tables found". Just ignore that.</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go to <a href="http://localhost/forum/admincp" target="_blank">http://localhost/forum/admincp</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Log in<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you can NOT log in, follow these steps.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go to <a href="http://localhost/phpmyadmin" target="_blank">http://localhost/phpmyadmin</a>, and open your database.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Open up the table "datastore" (BROWSE it)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Open up "options" (inside the database)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find (where XXXX is your cookie domain you set when your board was online.      cookiedomain";s:0:"XXXX"          </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">REMOVE the cookiedomain text. sothat it will look like this:       cookiedomain";s:0:""           </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Go back to your database.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Now browse the SETTING table.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find the "cookiedomain" field.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Edit it, and empty the "value" box.</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thats it! You're done!</li> </ul>IF IT SAYS THE DATABASE IS EMPTY, JUST IGNORE THAT! FOLLOW THE REST OF THE STEPS, AND YOU WILL SEE IT WORKS!</blockquote>

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