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So I want to make a small forum, just like this one but with different software (vBulletin). It says I need MySQL on my domain, I don't know anything about MySQL and I figured some of the helpful people in here might send me in the right direction. Thanks.
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MySQL Manual
There are some differences in later versions, but the basics will be the same. On another note...anyone else know what happened to MySQL.org? Is there no free open source version anymore? Perhaps I just didn't look hard enough but everything pointed to mysql.com which is all commercial/enterprise and support packages. Seems like just a couple years ago I had installed MySQL 5.0 on a couple boxes . [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] |
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Link on the left nav for 'Downloads' then select the 'mySQL Community Server' download link (left middle).
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I would ask why you want to setup vBulletin if you are running a small forum. You may want to try http://www.punbb.org/ or some other free version before shelling out dollars.
Later, WGO |
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vBulletin was the first one I found that I liked, and all the free ones I had seemed to force me to host it on their server involving some kind of a gay hostname like www.lameboards9999.thenameIwant.com
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If you're just setting up a forum (I also like punbb over vbulletin) you really don't need to know a whole lot about MySQL. If you want to actually learn about databases and what not then you can download and install a free copy of MySQL server and the client on your machine to play with.
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