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icetraxxg5

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OK, I have enabled PHP4 on my client version of MacOS X and have installed PHPBB2 but when i goto http://myipaddress/phpbb2/install.php (This is not a real link!) everything works but i dont really know what a "database" is or any other thing listed under database... Can anyone please help me? I would really like to have my own messageboard hosted off my macos x machine. 🙂

P.S. does anyone know any free hosting that will allow me to install and run PHP/CGI scripts/apps?
 
Re: MacOS X and PHPBB2...

Originally posted by icetraxxg5
OK, I have enabled PHP4 on my client version of MacOS X and have installed PHPBB2 but when i goto http://myipaddress/phpbb2/install.php (This is not a real link!) everything works but i dont really know what a "database" is or any other thing listed under database... Can anyone please help me? I would really like to have my own messageboard hosted off my macos x machine. 🙂

P.S. does anyone know any free hosting that will allow me to install and run PHP/CGI scripts/apps?
I also would appriciate a helping hand with this, I've just finished installing PHP and downloading PHPBB, I now am at the setup screen but don't know where to go from there...I'm lost 😕
 
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