#1 By: webmaster Subject:How Do I Install SuperMod ? Time: 14.Jan.04 05:35:14

Before you even install Supermod you have to have the following:

1. You need a domain name.. Domain names can be purchased for 15 - 25 dollars every year, depending on who you purchased the domain name through.
2. You need a host.. Some times you can get free hosting if you look around. The host is where you store your website files at.
3. That host needs to support php and provide mysql which is the database that this package uses to store this information like posts, users and so on.

Some places where you can purchase domains at also provide hosting and hosting can cost anywhere from free to the standard fee of 15 to 25 a month to even higher. Typically most websites that are forum sites dont need a huge amount of space or bandwidth and those are the factors as to how much it will cost you to have your domain sitting at some host server.

You have to have some knowledge of how to create html for your website along with some knowledge of graphics. You also have to know how to use file transfer protocol (FTP) to upload your website files to the host from which you have your domain parked at.

What we offer here for users in exchange for a donation is this:
1. Locate for you a host.
2. Help you register your domain name.
3. Advise you on the design of your opening page of your website (this is usually called the index page). The index page is the first thing people would see when they entered in your www.domainname address.
4. Advise and instruct you on how to upload your main page files to your website.
5. Setup and install the supermod forum package
6. Show you how to administrate it, create boards of interest that you are focused on, manage the threads, manage the users and so on.
7. Provide for you periodic updates to the forum software and install those updates for you if you need us to.

Now let's say you know all of the above and you are fully capable of installing Supermod yourself. You went to do this and you run into the following:

FACT: These kinds of errors 2: fopen("./template.php", "w") - Permission denied
(/home/sites/site27/web/yabbse/Sources/Somefile.php ln some line number)

Always mean you don't have file permission to alter the file. Chmod it 755 for us typical Unix host site operators.

FACT2: These kind of errors 2: OpenDir: No such file or directory (errno 2)
(/homepages/39/d91735861/htdocs/yabbse/Sources/Somefile.php ln some number)

Means you don't have that file path correctly configured in your settings. That can be a missconfiguration from forum prefs or from supermod settings or from modify mod settings. Look carefully everywhere.

This is only for those of you that don't have a forum installed.

1. Download and unzip the archive into a forum directory of your choice.
2. Create your database using your website admin provided SQL panel
3. Chmod your forum directory 777 and all the subdirectorys and files within it.
4. Run the InstallSuperMod.php file, it'll prompt you through each installation step and will require for you to enter in the correct information such as what your database name is, your database login name is, and your database password.
5. The last step of the installation it'll ask you if you want to login to your new board. Go ahead and take a look around.
6. Chmod your *.php files 644 except for settings.* files.
7. Customize your template layout.. You can come to this site for advice or assistance for the rest.