Web Site Forum Help

Hello Everyone,

I want to add/start a forum on my site but dont know if or where or what kind of script i can get or need. I do have CGI support if that helps. Thanks for your help!

This forum is run by PHPBB which you can find here:

http://www.phpbb.com/

There are numerous other bbs software you can use as well. PHPBB is just one of them and it requires PHP.

where can i found ones that i can run just off of html or cgi?

PHP is CGI.

CGI stands for common gateway interface and can be used through a variety of languages such as PHP, Perl, ASP, C, C++, and so on.

You will not be able to run a forum with HTML alone. You have to use some kind of CGI, and PHPBB is a great and its free. There are other good ones too, some in PERL and other languages.

Hey codeman, check this one out I have used it myself, and it is really easy to set up!

http://www.beauparland.org/discus/

http://www.discusware.com

hey i use the one from phpbb too and out of all of them i think this is the best forums i have used/seen there is lots of updates upgrads and other things like that

so i can run phpbb of my host even though i just have cgi?

When you say you just have CGI, that really doesn't say much.

Anyway if your host supports PHP, then you could run PHPBB. If your host has PERL installed then you could run any PERL based forum CGI script. Many of these scripts will require that you also have MySQL installed on the server or other database software. You really should figure out exactly what your host offers you and then find the type of software that you can run.

my host only supports cgi, not php or perl or anything else.
is there anyway for me to have a forum similiar to phpbb?

You do not understand still. When you say you support CGI, that could mean a variety of things. PERL is CGI. PHP is CGI. Numerous languages can be CGI. So when your host says you support CGI, they are not telling you much, as you may indeed support CGI using PERL and PHP. Your server has to support something like PERL or PHP or it would not be supporting CGI. Hope that makes sense. You cannot have CGI without some language. CGI itself is not a language.

that means yes go to http://www.phpbb.com and get the thing if it dont work then it dont work but by what he said if you read it ........read....... it should work as long as you know how to install it

this deserves to be posted in a 'best of ozzu' section or
something....

OMG!!! so you mean I got ripped off when this guy sold me a book that said I would learn how to Program in CGI??? ugh I gotta Stop Payment on my check!!

*evil grinz*

bigweb actually taught me the difference as well, which is probably why
I think it should be more accessible as common knowledge. I think a lot
of people think that CGI is a language.

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