Creating a Board aka Forum on your own PC !

[max_demon]

First of all you need Apache Server, PHP, MySQL and a Forum Script i.e. phpBB or Invision or vBulletin.

Download phpDev here

http://keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/s.../phpdev423.exe
and you get a bundle of all the things above.

exttract & install php dev. start the apache server,its 90% done.

upload the forum script to X:/phpdev/www/public
(x is your drive, usually C: )

now to access the forum through internet you will not know your IP address thru ipconfig command..

go to

http://www.whatismyip.com


see whats your IP address.

now go to

http://your ip address/public/your forum directory/install.php


thats it!

Source :http://tutorial1k.blogspot.com/2007/...ur-own-pc.html

[sam_1710]

hmmmm... i dint get it... how useful is that??

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

rather than using your IP address , use 127.0.01 , this will work extremely faster .

[REY619]

^^Yes, it works faster!!

[Apollo]

You can also use EasyPHP for this tutorial.

And you can type http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost in your browser; both should work just fine.