About PhpBB: What is PhpBB and why should you use it?

PhpBB is a web-application which is designed to be used as a Forum, Discussionboard or Messageboard.

You will find some websites hosting a Forum for you for free. However most of those services are unreliable and full of advertising. In addition to that due to security issues they are almost not customizable at all (except domains on some services).

I would really recommend you to use a real hosting account and install your own highly customizable PhpBB Forum on it which also is much more reliable.

There are a lot reasons why I would recommend you to use PhpBB. Discuss and keep in touch with people, share ideas and more. PhpBB is the most used forum engine. It simply works. It’s quite easy to customize. Of course there are a lot of more reasons on why you should be using it but you will find them out on your own.

PhpBBFAQ.org doesn’t go out to the professional Web-Developers but it goes out to every day users like me just wanting to build a website. I myself don’t know much about codes and stuff but there are people knowing less and those are the people I’d like to help here.

I hope you will enjoy my website.

Kind regards,
- Cédric -

PhpBB FAQ: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Hosting and FTP applications

What is a hosting? Which hosting is the best? What is an FTP client? Why do I need it? And how does it work?

Using HostExcellence

How to install PhpBB

What are the minimum requirements to install WordPress? How do I install or update WordPress?

How to setup your Forum

How do I setup my PhpBB forum? How do I create Categories and Sub-forums?

Styles or themes

Where can I find more templates for PhpBB? How do I install them?

Backup and retrieve

Available soon

Customize themes or styles

How can I personalize my Forum? How can I change the logo at the top? How can I change URL the logo goes to when clicked? How can I change the footer?

Google

Available soon

Anti-Spam

My Forum is full of spam messages, how can I avoid that? How can I get rid of spammers? How can I prevent it from being hacked?

Statcounter and Google Analytics

Is there a way of tracking visitors activity? How can I know how many visitors my website or forum has? Where they come from and which pages they’re looking at? What about Statcounter and Google Analytics?

Domains

What is a domain? How does a domain of the type of yourdomain.com work? How do I register them? Do I get personal e-mails me@mydomain.com too?

Music

How can I add some music to play on my Forum?

This website is hosted by:

If you’re looking for a good hosting I would really recommend you to use HostExcellence since I’m using it for my own websites. I think that’s already a pretty good reason. I know that it’s working great and that their customer support is great too. They are definitely on the good side of the jungle. Also I think it’s really easy to use.

HostExcellence currently mainly offers two hosting packages:

I’m currently using the Unlimited Business Plan since I have a lot of websites which I store on one hosting account. To me it’s really worth it. I barely ever run into problems and if I did their support was most helpful. Since I know how HostExcellence works I could give you better support if you run into problems with my FAQs.

Here you will find some basic instructions and FAQs I wrote on using HostExcellence...

If you signup select the Linux platform (default) not the Windows platform.

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Thank you for visiting and supporting my website.

- Cédric -

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