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Answer» Hello and thanks for visiting my thread. Hello and thanks for visiting my thread. You need a Web Server. Usually, a web server would be run by somebody else, and you either pay for shared or dedicated hosting. My website is on a server which I've never seen, and is a shared hosting account on that machine. I pay a monthly fee to "rent" that shared hosting, and the hosting service is responsible for it staying up. It that case, the hosting provider provides everything that was needed. SMF is written in PHP and therefore the system it runs on requires a PHP interpreter. Most systems are "LAMP" stack hosts, which means they typically run a Linux variant as the Operating System, Apache as the web server, MySQL for the database, and PHP as the main server scripting language. SMF uses MySQL and PHP and installing it on a lamp server is as simple as untarring/unzipping the provided SMF scripts onto the server, then running through the configuration by navigating to that site. Yes. Thanks patio, I did see that, perhaps even before today. (in fact most definitely ). Seeing something like that though doesnt always mean that I've "seen" it. (as in I had an understanding of what that actually means or does. ) I was going to post in the question that I have seen it on the bottom of each page, but never had the interest to persue the link. I suppose you might call it my AH-ha moment. BC_Programmer thank you too. Would someone like Go-Daddy be the provider, they "keep" it on their server & I access the program to edit things as I want them. So basically, I need to know a lot of stuff! PHP, then edit things in something like Filezilla, upload it to the server & test its FUNCTIONALITY. and I have to learn code of some sort to find errors? Hmmm... am I young enough to learn how to do all of this do you think? Is there a novice version of this? Hahahaha. I had been thinking of starting my own website to sell "stuff" (not Feebay), but I've only had a limited exposure to this sort of thing. GoDaddy.com is a popular domain name registrar. In other words, you can you them to register a web address that's you'd like to have for your website/forum. Of course, the web address, or domain name, must be available, meaning not already taken by someone else. In addition to domain name registration, you need an account with a web hosting service, as BC_Programmer mentioned. GoDaddy.com does provide hosting service, in addition to domain name registration, or you can choose among scores of independent hosting services. Here's one list: The Top 10 Web Hosting Companies of 2013, but there are many more if you care to search. Most hosting services make installation of a forum on a website easy, although it may not be an SMF forum. This can usually be done via a Control Panel, or cPanel, that can be accessed via web browser once you've created an account with them. No programming knowledge is required to do this. But, you will need to learn how the administrative panel of the forum WORKS so that you can create your major topic sections in the forum and perform numerous administrative tasks. |
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