Tutorial - Create Your Own Forum

[SpreadBit]

Tutorial - Create Your Own Forum.

Hello Bitcoiners,
In my this tutorial i am going to explain you guys how to create your own Forum with Simple machine service.

Ready? Lets go!
We will do this tutorial step by step. So now we begin with Step 1!

Step 1
First of all open www.simplemachines.org and click Download SMF button, then download Full package with .zip extension.

Step 2
Now, go to www.000webhost.com and click Sign up.
Now you see their will be option to select your domain, please select "or, I will choose your free subdomain (recommended)".
Enter your domain name you want, could be any for the tutorial.
Now enter your credential details and click Create my Account.
OR
If you already have an account, simply login.

Step 3
Now confirm your email and once confirmed, your domain will be working.
Now after confirming the email, click refresh status and if its properly confirmed, then click go to cPanel.

Step 4
Scroll down and click on MySQL option and enter these details:
MySQL database name: type "forum"
MySQL user name: again type "forum"
Password for MySQL user: here type a password
Enter password again: retype the password

and click create Database!
Copy the details shown in a notepad.
Now click back to control panel.

Step 5
Go Back to Control Panel and Scroll down and find File Manager, then it will open a new window, Enter your login password.
Once a new window is open click Public_Html folder.

Step 6
Click upload and select the smf .zip file which we recently downloaded. Click the green tick in the side to upload.

Step 7
Once files are uploaded, go to your domain with /install.php after your domain. Example: yourdomain.com/install.php

Step 8
SMF Installer page will open, click Continue Button.

Step 9
Now time to enter the MySQL database details. You now need your MySQL details which you copied in step 4.
Edit these things:
In server name, add your mysql url. For Example: mysql1.000webhost.com
In username, put your username like: a5145s4_forum
In Password, enter your MySQL Database password
In Database name, enter the same you entered in username.
Don't do anything with Table prefix.
Now click continue.

Step 10
Now Enter your Forum Name and simply click continue, don't do anything else on this page.

Step 11
A new page will appear with database information, Simply click continue on this page.

Step 12
Now time to create your Administrator Account on this forum, its the account with which you can handle out all the admin features available for example changing theme and other things.

Put your username, Password and Email.
Please enter the database password, its the same password which you entered in step 9.

Click continue once did.

Step 13
Alright, you just created your own forum! Close the tab and open your forum url.
Your forum is ready to use!

If it helped you, Please donate some Bitcoins to : 17Y562iYMACaw4vyRYEcNmYjgzD3kGZDi8
Thank You.

[Magic Of Nigeria]

SimpleMachinesForum is probably the WORST forum software out there. There are multiple good ones, like MyBB, IP.Board, Xenforo, phpBB, and alot of others.

Do NOT use SMF, it's a piece of shit

Also that hosting site you inked puts popup ads on your site that you don't get paid for

[nguyenducquy]

lots of ads will be appeared in that forum @@

[jeffersonairplane]

There is a much more proper way to do this. The methods shown by OP is likely the most economical (pretty much free) way of doing it.

A better way to do it is to get a proper web host, preferrably a VPS so you have more control. A good host/server is critical if you want to run a successful forum or website, or even an online business. I don't think SMF is that bad considering it's free but I personally prefer vbulletin or xenforo, both are not free options. Another free option is phpBB but I haven't been keeping up with them, and personally have been seeing less and less phpBB based forums.

[rexs]

Nice share

[SpreadBit]

Nice share

First person who understood my hard work on this tutorial!
Cheers!

[lovewiki]

Nice share

First person who understood my hard work on this tutorial!
Cheers!

Thanks and appreciate your hard work.

I also see that you've made another tutorial for faucet too... Now I'm searching for a detailed tutorial to set up a blockchain explorer (for bitcoin or any altcoin). Do you know how to make one?

Thanks again. 

[krunox123]

Nice tutorial.

000webhost sucks lol

[Muhammed Zakir]

@lovewiki : See Bitcoin-Abe [1]. Just search how to make block explorer site:bitcointalk.org in Google search to find relevant discussion on tjis forum. Good luck!

[1] Bitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22785.0 and Github repo: https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe .

   ~~MZ~~

[PandaMac]

Nice share

First person who understood my hard work on this tutorial!
Cheers!

Your hard work on this tutorial? LOL.  More like your hard work sucking dick to get money

[superSTAR777]

simpleforum isnt a good choice

[Muhammed Zakir]

Nice share

First person who understood my hard work on this tutorial!
Cheers!

Your hard work on this tutorial? LOL.  More like your hard work sucking dick to get money

Don't comment without knowing what it is. This forum is using SMF and is okay but not good enough. Its not his. He just made a tutorial to help users who want to create a forum without spending money on it or don't know how to. I am not surprised to see your post as trollers keep trolling.

   ~~MZ~~

[Lethn]

I should also point out that terms of service for many webhosts are extremely vague and mean you can get banned for just about anything. So if you intend to make a 4chan or Bitcointalk where you can write about almost anything you want then one way or another you will need to fork out money for it.

For instance there are websites that get taken down by DMCA notices despite having absolutely nothing to do with filesharing because political opponents and the like take issue with what their posting and decide they've had enough.

I would recommend finding a fairly liberal minded VPS or Dedicated Server host if you need to host content that would piss off a certain group of people quite a bit. Normal posting should be fine on shared webhosts like this but you'll need to restrict a lot of things.

[Bit!Dragon]

That's a very useful information, but SMF is a little complicated and I will look for other ways. OP 

[lovewiki]

@lovewiki : See Bitcoin-Abe [1]. Just search how to make block explorer site:bitcointalk.org in Google search to find relevant discussion on tjis forum. Good luck!

[1] Bitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22785.0 and Github repo: https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe .

   ~~MZ~~

Thanks MZ and appreciate your reply  ... but I'm looking for a detailed step-by-step tutorial including how to compile the explorer on the host and how to load the blockchain there etc. I can't find these detailed information either from Google search or the relevant thread you mentioned.

[llanillo]

Good work and your time is aprecciate...

Hope someone use this to create a good forum and there are a lot of softwares that makes everything easier i dont like simple machines but its your tutorial

[SpreadBit]

Good work and your time is aprecciate...

Hope someone use this to create a good forum and there are a lot of softwares that makes everything easier i dont like simple machines but its your tutorial

Thank you mate for the reply

[Tschai]

Trust me…if you need a tutorial to setup a forum…you’re gonna have a rough time keeping that forum alive.
 

Nice community service from the OP, nevertheless!

[SpreadBit]

Trust me…if you need a tutorial to setup a forum…you’re gonna have a rough time keeping that forum alive.
 

Nice community service from the OP, nevertheless!

Thank you mate, I appreciate your comment.