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ok, i istalled xampp and http://localhost opens nice intro gui and everithing is ok. So i tried to install phpbb downloaded from they site and there is some stuff needs to be configured and i dont know how.
DATABASE SERVER HOSTNAME ??
YOURE DATABSE NAME ??
DATABASE USERNAME ??
DATABASE PASSWORD ??
PREFIX FOR TABLES IN DATABASE ??

please some info i detail how to corectly fill thise item to make this work

Thank You for help

you can run: /opt/lampp/lampp security

dphreak wrote:ok, i istalled xampp and http://localhost opens nice intro gui and everithing is ok. So i tried to install phpbb downloaded from they site and there is some stuff needs to be configured and i dont know how.
DATABASE SERVER HOSTNAME ??
YOURE DATABSE NAME ??
DATABASE USERNAME ??
DATABASE PASSWORD ??
PREFIX FOR TABLES IN DATABASE ??

please some info i detail how to corectly fill thise item to make this work

Thank You for help

dphreak wrote:ok, i istalled xampp and http://localhost opens nice intro gui and everithing is ok. So i tried to install phpbb downloaded from they site and there is some stuff needs to be configured and i dont know how.
DATABASE SERVER HOSTNAME ??
YOURE DATABSE NAME ??
DATABASE USERNAME ??
DATABASE PASSWORD ??
PREFIX FOR TABLES IN DATABASE ??

please some info i detail how to corectly fill thise item to make this work

Thank You for help

You need to create a database, create a user and give that user a password and privileges to the database you created using phpMyAdmin. It is very user friendly and there is documentation.
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

I did a how-to, for someone with a similar issue as you, here:
http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopi ... 9816#79816

HTH