Windows 2000/XP Installation instructions?

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Anyone? I was hoping to get VB up this weekend so if there is a quick install guide for everything (PHP/Apache/MySQL/VB), I'd appreciate knowing about it.

Thanks.

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I must be blind, but I opened up the .zip file that I downloaded and couldn't find an Upgrade or even a readme file (though there are some upgrade*.php files).

Where is this file located,...

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I'm now a VB owned licence owner and am about to install it on a newly formatted Windows XP box (and old box but fresh install).

I looked through the Install instructions in Appendix 3 of...

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I'm now a VB owned licence owner and am about to install it on a newly formatted Windows XP box (and old box but fresh install).

I looked through the Install instructions in Appendix 3 of...

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Perhaps this doesn't belong in this forum, but I have noticed that the mouse-over behaviour is different between IE and Netscape (Mozilla Firefox actually) in that with IE, hovering over a thread title...

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Will denying permissions be good enough? If permissions are denied, are the posts/threads encrypted? If so great, but if not, will a smart search engine be able to pick up what someone wrote? Some...

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I'm looking hard at VB. A recent thread here has people asking how to ensure their forum threads/posts are searchable by Google.

I'd like my future forum to DEFINITELY NOT be searchable...

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How secure is the information that a user has browsed when he or she is at a public terminal or PC?

What sort of information is stored in the browser's cache? How about Cookies? How...

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Will VB timeout a user and log him/her off after a specified time (ideally 30 minutes) of inactivity? This is so that a user from a public terminal can have at least a small measure of confidence that...

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Is there a site with what I would like to call a "minimalist" template that I can see?

I'm planning on getting VB as a way to document my work. So in fact, I'm going to be "talking...

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Sorry. It seems to work. I put in "test" for the database and "test" for the username and nothing for the password and now it has passed the essential requirements and permissions...

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I uploaded the vb_test.php script to a subdirectory in my web space at my ISP. I ran it and it is asking me for the MySQL Server ("localhost" is the default")

What do I enter...

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If I am running 2 VB sites, can a thread be imported from one site to another?

Can this be done on a regular basis so that, in the case of that thread, the 2nd site will effectively be a...

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So forgive my ignorance but you're saying it's possible to have Apache serve say hundreds of people off of a Win 2000 Pro (not Server)...or for that matter, an XP Home PC? (Given enough horsepower of...

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Windows 2000 Pro (and likely Windows XP Pro) only allows 10 simultaneous connections. If I install apache or use the included IIS server in Windows 2000, is the number of users restricted to max 10?...

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Hi Zach,

I took a look at the link to the archive you posted:

Zacheryhttp://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archive/index.php

The archive is all text and CSS.
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Can the "logic" of "Show Printable Version" be modified so that it can:

1) traverse the entire forum
2) print out each thread, but instead of generating HTML (is...

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By xml/rss/js, do you mean that external.php can generate such a file which can then be "read" by an Ipaq application, like Pocket Internet Explorer (or some other application)?

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Is there a way I can see what was posted on a certain day? E.g. May 15. Or a range of dates, e.g. May 15 - 17.

And view them as "posts"?

"Advanced Search"...

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Is there a way to "export" the entire forum to a text file? Sort of like "Show Printable Version" so that I can export just the text (not the images and not any attachments) to a...