- Check with your web host that your web space is running on Windows NT4 or 2000 operating system, and is ASP enabled. There is no grantee the forum
will run on a Unix web server even if it supports ASP.
- Check with your web hosts that you can use a DSN-less connection to an Access database on your web space and that you have sufficient permissions
to write to this database. If your hosts require that you have the forum's Access database in a specially set up directory please see Moving
the Location and/or Renaming the Forum Database.
- Unzip the Forum zip file onto your hard drive keeping the files and images in there original directories.
- Upload the files and images through FTP to your webspace, again keeping the files and images in there directories. With ASP you don't need
to place the files in a CGI bin.
- Once all the files are uploaded point your web browser to the location on your web space where you uploaded the forum to.
- Now that your forum is uploaded and running see, Setting up and Administering the Discussion Forum, to find out how to set up forums and
administer your forum.
- If you find that you are getting errors and pages not displaying please see Troubleshooting and Common Errors.
- To login into the forum the default admin username and password is: -
- Username: - Administrator
- Password: - letmein
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