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How to configure phpBB 2 to work with a new domain?

In case you wish to use your phpBB 2 application with another domain, you should change the server_nameoption in your phpBB database. You can do this using the phpMyAdmin tool available in your cPanel. Once in phpMyAdmin, select your phpBB database and browse the … Continued

How to enable RSS in SMF?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication – a web feed format for publishing frequent updates of site content such as news, blog posts, etc. Publishers benefit from RSS feeds because this lets them syndicate their site content automatically. Readers benefit from web … Continued

How to change the posts text color in vBulletin

The posts text color and the quote text color can be changed by entering the preferred color in the .postcontentdefinition. Check the following example: .postcontent { text-align: right; word-wrap: break-word; color: green; } The variable definition can be altered through your … Continued

How to allow your vBulletin members to change the forum style?

In order to allow your vBulletin members to switch between the installed forum front-end styles navigate to your vBulletin admin panel->Settings->Options->Style & Language Settings->Edit Settings. Select the Yes radio button in the Allow Users To Change Styles area and save the modification. In this … Continued

How to change the ‘Main Page’ title to something else.

The default name for the MediaWiki main page is Main Page. You can change this by editing the MediaWiki:Mainpage page. Go to: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Mainpage where yourdomain.com is your actual domain name where MediaWiki is installed. Click the edit button to edit the page. Change Main Page to the new page … Continued

How to protect MediaWiki so only registered members can read?

If you want to set up MediaWiki in a way that only registered members can read, you have to edit the following lines in your LocalSettings.php file accordingly: $wgWhitelistRead = array(“Special:Userlogin”, “-“, “MediaWiki:Monobook.css” ); $wgGroupPermissions[‘*’][‘read’] = false; The LocalSettings.php file can be modified using … Continued

Detailed Moodle requirements.

The minimal Moodle server requirements are listed below: PHP 5.6 or above – http://php.net MySQL 5.5 or above – http://mysql.org Apache 2.x or above – http://apache.org You can find more comprehensive information about this in the official Moodle documentation here. XonHost servers are fully … Continued

How to install Laravel on my XonHost account?

Prior to installing Laravel, you need to ensure that the server meets the requirements below: PHP >= 7.1.3 OpenSSL PHP Extension PDO PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Extension Tokenizer PHP Extension XML PHP Extension Ctype PHP Extension JSON PHP Extension If your account is currently using a lower PHP … Continued

SMF vs phpBB Forum application comparison

phpBB and SMF are two of the most popular free bulletin board applications. If you are looking for a free forum application, you will most probably end up using one of the two. Here we will discuss the pros and cons of each … Continued

How to configure SMF to work with a new domain?

In order to configure SMF to work properly with another domain, you should modify the Settings.php file located in the installation directory of your application. This can be done using File Manager in cPanel, or via FTP. Once you access the file you should change … Continued