{"id":1508,"date":"2021-07-27T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:40:37","slug":"install-xenforo-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knownhost.com\/kb\/install-xenforo-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Xenforo Manually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

XenForo is a forum software that can be installed to your site. This guide is intended to cover the installation process. You can find their official instructions here<\/a>. For this guide, we will be assuming a cPanel server. The process in DirectAdmin is very similar, but some of the details will be panel-specific and will vary between panels. For our example, the site will be installed to a folder forums<\/code> within folder public_html<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. If you are not yet sure if your server has all the needed php modules, you may want to download their test script. At time of this writing, that can be found in this zip archive<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. After that has finished downloading, you will need to download the installation archive from XenForo. At time of this writing, that can be done from their Customer Area<\/a>, though it is behind a login wall associated with your customer account.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. While the installation archive is downloading, you should create the account in your server if you haven’t already. For cPanel you can see our Getting Started Guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. If the site does not yet resolve to your server, it would be useful to add the domain to your hosts file<\/a> so that you can use the domain to connect to the server.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. You may also want to create<\/a> an additional ftp<\/a> or webdav<\/a> account within that, restricted to the directory the site will be located in, especially if you will want to give a developer ftp and\/or webdav access to the site files without giving them access to the whole cPanel account.\n
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    1. In this example we will be creating an ftp account, restricted to our forums<\/code> folder, and connecting over ftps using FileZilla<\/a>. Once you have created the new cPanel account for the site, log into cPanel<\/a> as the new user and go to “FTP Accounts” in the “Files” section.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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