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 1)here. For this guide, we will be assuming a cPanel server. The process in DirectAdmin2) 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
within folder public_html
.
forums
folder, and connecting over ftps using FileZilla. Once you have created the new cPanel account for the site, log into cPanel as the new user and go to "FTP Accounts" in the "Files" section.
xenforo_requirements.php
into your server. In FileZilla you can do this either by drag-and-drop, or by right-clicking the file and choosing "Upload".
data
and internal_data
to permissions 0777
, but if the site is using a php/apache configuration with suphp-like permissions,16) this shouldn't be necessary.
http://domain.tld/forums/install/
. Remember to replace domain.tld
with your domain, and any other needed url substitutions.
public_html
or a subdirectory thereof; in our example this will be the forums
directory