Hello, lunarforums.

I am having a few difficulties installing phpbb which I pray you’ll be able to help me with.  Just a heads-up, this is the first website I have ever attempted to run, and my only previous coding experience is html and C++, so I’m not too hot on php and mysql.

Anyway. I’d like to install it manually if possible, not using Fantastico, as I plan later to install phpbb plus. (I realise I may have to uninstall phpbb, but I’d like to follow the tutorials to the word on my first attempt).

So. I’ve uploaded the files, and have followed embwayne’s tutorial. However, when I finally press the install button, I receive the following error:

An error occurred trying to update the database
You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 493B4', '', 'DD6900', 'EFEFEF', 'DEE3E7', 'D1D7DC', '', '', ''

What am I doing wrong? :/

My site is www.ess-a.com.

Thanks in advance for the help, I’m extremely grateful that I signed up to a host with such great support.

-Richard

Hi, Garvey.



Not sure.



Yes.



Yes.

Basically, I clicked in CPanel on MySQL Account Maintenance, wrote "forum" in the adddb field, pressed Add Db, adsed a user and password, then added that to Db with all privilegs. Finally added localhost to Access Host.

In the phpbb Installation screen, I'm absolutely certain I wrote down the name of the Db and User, etc correctly, and also that I picked the right version (4.x).

Any other ideas?
 

Yeah, I know. I added that in.  As I said, I'm sure all the info I wrote there is correct.

But still the error...  

its sorted now, unfortunately i wont beable to tell you what the problem was, but i have reported it to LP staff.

put it this way, you had done everything right, something you done a while back was stopping it working.

i have pm'd you your admin username and password, please change these as i dont wanna be blamed if anything happens in the future... believe me it happens

also the admin e-mail is set to my e-mail address, please change this, it is all changeablle via the admin section under 'configuration'

yup, you done everything ok. just carry on as you were

we installed phpbb, then we are copying over it with phpbbplus

kinda defats the point, would it not be better to just install one, otherwise your using more tables on your database than you should be?

i'm also wondering what you're upto, as i'm in their fixing the mysql, the all of a sudden files have edited theirselves

how about we dlete all, and start again, install phpbb plus

right, i'll get on it, i'll let you know if i need anything from you