Creating a Board aka Forum on your own PC !

First of all you need Apache Server, PHP, MySQL and a Forum Script i.e. phpBB or Invision or vBulletin.

Download phpDev here

*keihanna.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpdev5/phpdev423.exe
and you get a bundle of all the things above.

exttract & install php dev. start the apache server,its 90% done.

upload the forum script to X:/phpdev/www/public
(x is your drive, usually C: )

now to access the forum through internet you will not know your IP address thru ipconfig command..

go to

*www.whatismyip.com

see whats your IP address.

now go to

*your ip address/public/your forum directory/install.php

thats it!

Source :*tutorial1k.blogspot.com/2007/05/creating-board-aka-forum-on-your-own-pc.html

hmmmm... i dint get it... how useful is that??

rather than using your IP address , use 127.0.01 , this will work extremely faster .

R

^^Yes, it works faster!!

You can also use EasyPHP for this tutorial.

And you can type *127.0.0.1 or *localhost in your browser; both should work just fine.