Very newbie Q
Thursday ~ March 03, 2010
You see, right now I am starting on this arena but I have very little experience with it, the last thing I did was a simple html webpage with 4 pages in them. I want to make a better web page now, but I would like the Forum to be up first, in case the design takes to long. do you have to program it in to a web page or is it just a link, so I could directly link it to the domain and temporaryly instead of getting the main page you go directly to the Forum.
I ask this here because if I it can be done easily I will buy the forum earlier, instead of waiting for the web page design to be complete.
waiting for your answers :o
We do have a live demo of vB3, including full access to the admin control panel. You can set one up for your own use from this page:
http://www.vbulletin.com/admindemo.php
You can also download a test script to run on your server to see if it's compatible with vBulletin 3. You can get this script here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=391701#post391701
EDIT: The server that is going to host my page has PHP and Mysql I will ask for the versions to se if the server has the latest
You see, right now I am starting on this arena but I have very little experience with it, the last thing I did was a simple html webpage with 4 pages in them. I want to make a better web page now, but I would like the Forum to be up first, in case the design takes to long. do you have to program it in to a web page or is it just a link, so I could directly link it to the domain and temporaryly instead of getting the main page you go directly to the Forum.
I ask this here because if I it can be done easily I will buy the forum earlier, instead of waiting for the web page design to be complete.
waiting for your answers :o
vbulletin is a complete forum package, it is standalone and -offcourse- already written for you ;). so the only thing that it requires is a webserver or hosting plan that supports php & mysql.
lets take the vbulletin website as an example: www.vbulletin.com (http://www.vbulletin.com/) is just a normal web page, but if you click on community, you are redirected to www.vbulletin.com/forum (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum) were /forum is the directory on your ftp were the forumsystem is installed.
so in other words you could install your forum on your main www.domainname.com (http://www.domainname.com/) then you will go directly to your forum. but i advise you if you later one want a other front page on your domain (the website that you are creating) then you could better install the system on for example www.domainname.com/forum (http://www.domainname.com/forum). then you can create a temporary mainpage, with a redirect script to let users be automaticly be redirected to your forums, or you could create a temporary mainpage with a link like: Click here to go to the forums.
hope that this explains it :)
