Info on downloading and setting up a Forum for my work place.

[landofshadows]

I am thinking of setting up an Internal Forum hosted on one of our work servers, but as I search the NET all I am finding is 30 Day trail versions...

Do you know of a good place to find a Forum that I can download for free, that I can customise the Title banners etc... and may be even have a spell checker embedded like this  one ?

Cheers for any help...

[Leventhan]

Do you mean....
Invision Power Board?

[Nightwolf]

Like a place which helps you set forums for free.

Should be in computing, but try freewebs.



FREEWEBS PWNS RMRK

[:)]

Why not use the EXACT same forum software as rmrk?

Simple Machines Forum

[Leventhan]

SMF is superior to Invision Power Board, and Freewebs is a good chice too.

[landofshadows]

Cheers guys... I downloaded one from Simple Machines... But found it a bit harder than simple...LOL

[CartoonFan]

Or get it hosted at www.proboards.com

They did MY forum site. I love em'.

[Roph]

Your internal server needs to be running a web server and have mysql and apache configured with it also.

If it's ONLY going to be for internal use, and you're sure nobody is going to try and do anything malicious, then just (I'm guessing it's windows) install EasyPHP to get it setup quick. It's designed really for php developers to work on things locally so it's not hardened security wise, but it works and will run SMF and the like fine.

You'll then need to edit some of the config files (it's easy, I can upload an already edited one) to make the server listen to other requests except from itself (easyphp is designed for testing / working with php on), and then it'll act just like a regular web server on the internet. Read up on the site for guides and stuff, it's not too hard =x.

I have an exact copy of the RMRK forums that I run on my own pc using easyphp, for testing anything I write before applying it to the real RMRK. It also acts as a backup and stuff.