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Just FYI, I'm running my phpbb testboard locally under Windows, but I am using EasyPHP (Apache based), and I never have to set any chmod because it saw me as local root, thus giving me all read/write access I needed, so I can just browse to http://localhost/myforum/install/install.php and everything...

I thought you said that root were fine?
Ok, then you should look for the /admin directory.
Maybe it got installed under /phpbb2/admin instead?

chmod is not from windows itself. You need to do a shell login to your server. Or using an FTP program to do it for you. How about trying without chmod? Just run the install.php, and it will try to write the config.php. After it failed, it should ask you if you want to FTP it, or just download it. I...

Guides and Announcements? So I guess your board is already alive then. :) By itself, phpbb will put all posts in the following order: Announcement, then Sticky, then Normal posts. However, if you have multiple Announcement and Sticky, then they will be sorted to the newest one first in their posting...

As I mentioned before, after you logged in, you should see in your browser's address bar something like this: http://www.something.bla/index.php?sid=blabla edit that address by inserting /admin, then press enter: http://www.something.bla /admin /index.php?sid=blabla That will bring you to ACP. Then,...

Yup! You have to give config.php a read-write permission (chmod 666 or do it in other way on your hosting control panel). The original file is 0 byte long, until you successfully run install.php, which will try to write config.php. I think if the installation failed to write config.php, it will give...

Because you are just starting from scratch, maybe I suggest you to just download a prepackaged webserver-php-mysql combo, such as EasyPHP or some others?
This way you won't get stuck with web serving problem, before you play around with phpbb.

Using ACP, check user, forum and group permission. Probably you are on denied permission?

I think the refresh problem is related to the domain/cookies set up. (i.e. no http://, no slash, with slash, etc.)

Unless if it was just a one time glitch..

That is a really tricky problem. Because other pages are loading fine, then it means SQL queries are running ok. Except for the last page. I can't help you there, but maybe you can post your support request template so that everyone will know about your basic stuff, then an expert can try to help? h...

I do see the ACP link, but when I click on it I get the usual 404 error. Before you clicked, does the link showed as "http://www.bla.bla/admin/index.php?sid=blabla"? As mentioned by Ccucu , maybe your Admin link was pointing to "www.bla.bla/phpbb2/admin/" as-if your board was in...

How can you just lose a table? Well, a nice sql DROP command will do. :( Can you just see and check your database table yourself? Maybe instead of missing a table, someone just renamed it to something else? Also, if you are missing a table (user table), probably you still have the rest of the datab...

phpBB is not doing well in php5. You need a modified phpBB. If you have phpmyadmin, then you should be able to see php version information there. The db permission I was talking about is related on how you create your database. Using phpmyadmin, you can see it from database > check privileges. This ...

As usual, check your settings: domain (no http:// in front), path (just /), cookies (I think just default is enough). But.. you can access ACP, so.. When you said that you can't access ACP, do you mean you can't see the Administrator Link, or you can't go directly to /admin? After you logged in, you...

php problem? hopefully you are not using version 5 sql problem? mysql works fine with me, I don't know the other version db permission? if phpbb is logging in to sql db with limited access (not write/update), then ACP will never allow changes to the database. Check you db user permission. sessions/c...