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Hello All.

Since I don't know all the info I need to provide in order for you to help me, I'll probably give you more than you need! Sorry about that in advance!

I've designed a site for a nonprofit and they want me to add a forum on their site. They share a server with a school that they sponsor. The school tech person (with whom I'm not permitted to speak) gave me access to the server. Here are their server specs:

Apache 1.3.33
php4 4.3.10
perl 5.8.4
libdb-mysql-perl 2.9006
libdbi-perl 1.46
mysql-server 4.0.24

I have Dreamweaver 8 on my PC (although I usually work on a Mac, using Dreamweaver MX). I downloaded GForum and followed the ReadMe instructions to copy the install.dat and install.cgi to the server, which I did w/ DW's ftp feature. OK. From my PC/Dreamweaver, I can see the files in the remote folder (although they don't show on the Mac/DW screen).

Now what? The ReadMe says to "set the permissions of install.cgi to 755." What does that mean? How do I do that? (You can tell that I'm a Mac user, right?)

Next, it says to "Set permissions of the directory you want to install GForum into to 777." Again, what does that mean and how do I do that?

Next, it says to "run install.cgi from your browser." How?

I sincerely hope that after I accomplish the above steps, things will be clearer to me -- or am I dilusional?

Thanks so much for your assistance!
GeeWhiz
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Now what? The ReadMe says to "set the permissions of install.cgi to 755." What does that mean? How do I do that? (You can tell that I'm a Mac user, right?)
You need to set the permissions of the install.cgi to allow execute access. Your ftp client should allow you to set these permissions on the file.
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Next, it says to "run install.cgi from your browser." How?
Just go to the url in your browser (eg. http://example.com/cgi-bin/gforum/install.cgi).

Adrian
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Visuals:
http://images.google.com/...&sa=N&tab=wi

Good tutorials:
http://catcode.com/teachmod/
http://www.ss64.com/bash/chmod.html


Sandra Roussel
Chonsa Group Design - Fresh Start Housing
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Thanks, Sandra and Adrian.

I was able to install everything (?). (Used WS_FTP. Right-clicked on files to access Properties and set permissions.)

Then I began the GForum Setup. I'm stuck on Step 2, SQL Info. I've never created a database and know nothing about it. I thought GForum would create it for me. Yes? The following is what shows on Step 2 page:

Sql Server Type: Mysql
SQL Hostname: www.mysite.org/_TESTSITE
SQL Database: gforum (This is what was already in the field. So i created a folder called gforum at the root level of the remote _TESTSITE.)
SQL Username & Password: same as I use to access the remote site.
Table Prefix: gforum_ (This was already in the field.)

The error message is: Could not connect to database.

Can you help me please?

Thanks.
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You need access to an SQL/database server (eg. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, etc) to run gforum. You need access to the database server as well as a database that your user has access to. You'll have to ask your server administrator for this information.

Adrian