Software Name: Dynamic Network Forum Dvbbs
Software version: 7.0.0 SP2
Licensing Mode: Free software
Software Size: 1.96MB
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In today's interconnected era, the network has been deeply in our life, people and people in the network also in different ways to communicate, and BBS is the product of this era of communication. Although the current network of the characteristics of the BBS has almost covered our lives in all aspects, but not necessarily to meet individual requirements, then why not set up a own own BBS it? The following author to the current network more common set up a simple ASP forum "Dynamic Network Forum" to give you a demonstration.
first, the preparation before installation
1. Prepare IIS
Before you install the forum, you must first prepare for IIS, and today's Windows Setup disk typically has its own IIS, and in the Add/Remove Windows Components option in Control Panel, click Internet Information Services (IIS). After the confirmation, follow the steps of the system prompts to install the completion.
2. Download and the press and the Dynamic network program
To the official web site to download a dynamic Network program installation package, in addition to the need to download other patch packages. After downloading, double-click the installer to install it in the specified directory, where I install to "D:dvbbs" as an example (Figure 1).
It is best to have your forum installed in a more free and adequate space partition, as users increase the number of files in the forum and the space occupied by the increase, if you put it in the IIS default "C:inetpub" will affect the system speed, so I do not recommend it in the system disk directory.
3. Configure IIS
On my computer, right-click on the menu select manage to go to the Computer Management page and find Internet Information services at the bottom of the page. Open its tree. Right-click to view Default Web site Select Properties, where you can set all IIS properties for the upcoming open forum.
The first step: Locate the Forum on your hard disk in the Home Directory tab. Because in front of the author has extracted the forum to "D:dvbbs" path, here also in the "local path" after filling in the path above, the other options default (Figure 2).
Step Two: Set the default file type on the Documents tab. As the default home page file for the forum is ". asp", click "Add" in the "Enable default Document" option to add "index.asp" to the default document, so that the index page (index.asp) of the forum will be the default forum homepage (Figure 3).
Ii. visit to the Forum
After the above settings can be accessed through the browser to their own forums, the simplest way is to open IE browser in the address bar to enter "http://localhost/" or "http://(your machine's IP)/", you can enter the Forum homepage. You can also enter "HTTP://127.0.0.1/" (Figure 4).
This IP is actually the same as localhost, which is the special address reserved for testing the native network. If you do not enter the address above please check to see if "index.asp" is included in the "Document" option for IIS or if the Dvbbs path setting is correct when the home directory setting is configured.
Now you can use the forum description in the "User name: admin, Password: admin888", as the administrator of the identity of the Forum, click on the top of the "Management" link again enter the above password into the management page. For security purposes, it is recommended that you create a new user and add it to the Administrator | Admin option to elevate it to administrator rights and remove or change a complex password for the default Admin user.
FAQ: Now you can see the Forum home page but it doesn't mean you can use it normally. Users may encounter errors that cannot query the database when they are set up and logged in with the above method, at which point the problem can be resolved by changing the read and write permissions of the "data" folder that contains the database files in the forum directory.
If it is a win2k/2003 system: on "Data" point right view, folder properties → security, add users "Everyone", and then click the "Everyone" user tick "write" permission can (Figure 5).
If the WinXP system does not have a "security" tab when viewing properties, follow these steps to set: Tools → folder Options, click on the "View" tab, the "Apply Simple File Sharing (recommended)" Hook is removed from the bottom option, and the other steps are the same as the win2k/2003 system setup (Figure 6).
Third, personalized forum
First step: Set the basic properties of the Forum
Login to the Admin interface, first into the "Basic settings" set up a forum for the relevant instructions and links to the address, one of your forum on the basic molding. In addition to this option there are upload, posting and user registration restrictions and other related settings, here is the forum façade (Figure 7).
Step two: Add the relevant layout
After the installation of the forum is still empty, this will be through the "Forum Management" layout (category) add | Admin option to add a discussion area, just click "Add Forum" after adding the forum name, description, and category to the Add menu. To create or change the layout you only need to click on the word "admin", in which you can make any changes to the forum layout and instructions (Figure 8).
Step three: Beautify the Forum
In the http://down.dvbbs.net/has various styles and styles of forum templates, enough to meet the majority of your decorative forum requirements, the use of these templates is also very simple, will compress all the things in the package after decompression to cover the forum directory under the "Skins" folder, Go to template export under Administration page "Appearance Settings" | Import, and then follow the prompts to click Next, and you will find that the style you need is already in the "Import Forum Template List", tick the templates you need to select "Import" (Figure 9).
You can then find the template style that you just installed in the Forum style option.
Believe that after reading the above instructions, the reader to set up a forum will not be difficult, but after the erection of the completion of a series of work more complex. For example, the dynamic allocation of IP to the domain name so that other friends can also facilitate access to the forum to insert various features of plug-ins and other functions to integrate and so on, want to build a good forum still need more efforts.
