We have installed a new PhpBB forum for the blog, and we have covered the Setup of PhpBB forum from BlueHost account in our last post. Agenda of this post is to cover the things that a new user needs to perform over a newly installed forum.

Change the Username, Email and Password

When you first login into your forum, you should change the default username (admin) and password.

In the administration panel from the general tab>> Quick access >> Manage users

In the select user page, enter admin as the member to be searched.

Now you are on the overview page of the admin user, all the changes highlighted in red squares (username, email and Password) need to be made.

Remember: When these changes are submitted you will automatically be logged out, now login again with the new username and password.

Board Configuration

After the Authentication changes, we are now moving to the Board configuration. From the general tab>> Board configuration>> select Board settings

Here you can determine the basic operation of your board, give it a fitting name and description, and among other settings adjust the default values for time zone and language.

These are some of the basic settings that need to be implemented at the earliest on a newly installed forum. And note that most of the settings are covered in the general tab itself.

If you want a Twitter “Follow” badge on your forum check our post on Floating Twitter “Follow” Badge on PhpBB Forum.

I am a user of BlueHost webhosting for almost a year now, and i am very much satisfied with their services. This time i decided to use their inbuilt software/services for implementing the Phpbb forum. Their were two software choices available for implementing the forum, one was the simple scripts and the other one Fantastico De Luxe. I preferred Simple Scripts for the implementation as their are lot of reasons for choosing them, we will discuss about that later.

Installation of PhpBB Forum

I will be covering the installation step by step to make it easy for others to implement.

Step 1: Login into your control panel.

Step 2: Go to Software/Services, and open simple scripts. You will be redirected to a simple scripts page.

Step 3: Select PhpBB forum from the available forum choices.

Step 4: Now you will move to installation options, select install for a brand new installation.

Step 5: In the installation preferences page, select the stable version of PhpBB. Select the domain for which you want the installation, and select the path (here i have selected forum, if you want it in root than leave it blank). Just enter the path and it will automatically create it over the server, you need not manually go to file manager and create it.

Agree to the GPLv2 License agreement, and complete.

Step 6: The forum is created and the details are available to you, use those details to login into your forum.

Their are certain changes that needed to be implemented on a new forum, we will be covering that in our upcoming post.

Till than you can try our Floating Twitter “Follow” Badge on PhpBB Forum post to implement a twitter badge, just like the one we have on our forum.