Install Invision Power Board through cPanel.
Below are the steps to install IPB through the Scripts Library option-
a.Log into your cPanel account. By going to www.yourdomain.com/cpanel or http://www.yourdomain.com:2082/
b. Once you enter cPanel, click the ‘Scripts Library’ icon located towards the right of the ‘CGI Center’ icon
c.You will be directed to a page where a few Open Source Application choices are listed. Click on ‘InvisionBoard’
d.Now you will be taken into a page where you have to enter the Login details, fill them as you deem appropriate.
e. In the field that says ‘Install at this url’: http://www.yourdomain.com/ enter testforum.
f.Your installation is completed and your board is fully functioning at yourdomain.com/testforum, but we still haven’t finished yet.
g. Log into your FTP using an FTP program like Ws_FTP.
h.Go into the public_html folder on your web-space.
i.Go into the testforum folder in public_html.
j.Select all the contents of this folder. Right click on it and choose the option ‘Move to’. In the destination area for the Move to command, enter /public_html/
k.Log out of your FTP account and Log in again.
l.All the contents of the testforum should now be in the public_html folder.
m.Download the file conf_global.php file, located in the public_html folder to your computer.
n.Open the file with an editing program like, Dreamweaver or Notepad.
o.Locate $INFO['base_dir'] in this file, it would be pointing to /public_html/testforum/ , remove the /testforum After removing it the address should look something like /home/user/public_html , where /user/ is your cPanel username.
p.Locate $INFO['board_url'] and change where it is pointing to by entering the root URL you want, that is www.yourdomain.com
q.Locate $INFO['html_dir'], again make this point to /home/user/public_html/html/ and not to /home/user/public_html/tesforum/html
r.Do the same for INFO['html_url'], $INFO['upload_dir'] and $INFO['upload_url'] and any other field that show /testforum/ is their location
This has worked for IPB versions 1.2 and 1.3
Regards,
Jack Russell
