Help In Setting Up Privatw Message Bourd?

[Chris Freeland]

I recently started a new job at a small company that my Boss and I are the whole IT department, we want to set up an Intranet private website for the employee's to use. Neither my boss nor I have ever set one up before, I have mostly built the home page, however in addition we want to set up a simple message board where employee's can post messages, suggestions etc. and I do not know where to begin, any suggestions or links that would help me with this project would be appreciated? In addition we want to provide a link to a pdf formatted employee handbook, any help on how to do this would be appreciated as well?

[Chris Blount]

I recently started a new job at a small company that my Boss and I are the whole IT department, we want to set up an Intranet private website for the employee's to use. Neither my boss nor I have ever set one up before, I have mostly built the home page, however in addition we want to set up a simple message board where employee's can post messages, suggestions etc. and I do not know where to begin, any suggestions or links that would help me with this project would be appreciated? In addition we want to provide a link to a pdf formatted employee handbook, any help on how to do this would be appreciated as well?

Hi Chris,

I am in the same position at my job. They wanted me to setup a message board on a local server that is running Windows 2003 server. What I did was load PHP (http://www.php.net). Then I downloaded PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com).

Since it won't be a busy board, I'm using a Microsoft access database. It's a little tricky to setup because you have to configure the ODBC. It all seems to work though and we were up and running in 10 minutes.

[mini1]

Help In Setting Up Privatw Message Bourd?
please use spell check in all titles, or at least look over it before you post it. "Privatw"?

[Bogy]

That's just to get your attention. Noticed the thread didn't you? :lol:

[Tusk]

Actually that's how it's pronounced down south ... Privatw :D

[Chris Freeland]

Oops! :D

[Chris Freeland]

Hi Chris,

I am in the same position at my job. They wanted me to setup a message board on a local server that is running Windows 2003 server. What I did was load PHP (http://www.php.net). Then I downloaded PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com).

Since it won't be a busy board, I'm using a Microsoft access database. It's a little tricky to setup because you have to configure the ODBC. It all seems to work though and we were up and running in 10 minutes.

I wanted to do a trial run by building the forum on my laptop which is XP Pro, it has IIS, is this possible? I followed your instructions but when I downloaded phbb2 all I could do is open up a blank web brouser, what am I missing or doing wrong, I relay am a novice at this type of thing.

[nsafreak]

I wish I could help but personally it's easier for me to be their for a hands on kind of experience. Have you setup an intranet site and a database for phpBB? You'll need to have both of those items setup before you can go any further. I'd give more detailed instructions but I use Linux for my server enviroment and as such I'm using MySQL and Apache for the database. Have you read the manual on the phpBB site? It's located here (http://www.phpbb.com/support/guide/) and will walk you through the entire process. The laptop will work for a trial run but please do not use it as a production enviroment system, you're just asking for trouble then.