{"id":376,"date":"2016-09-19T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostduplex.com\/kb\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:13:56","slug":"how-to-install-phorum-forum-via-softaculous-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-install-phorum-forum-via-softaculous-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Phorum Forum via Softaculous in cPanel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Log into your cPanel account. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the <strong>Software<\/strong> section, click on the <strong>Softaculous App Installer<\/strong> Icon.<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/softaculous-icon.gif\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n3. <\/strong>cPanel will redirect you to the Softaculous Panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> On the left side of your screen, you should locate the <strong>Forums<\/strong> category. Click on it and then click on the <strong>Phorum<\/strong> link that will appear.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/Phorum-softaculous.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Click on the <strong>Install<\/strong> button.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/Phorum-install-button.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Fill the necessary field, under the <strong>Software Setup<\/strong> field:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Choose Installation URL:<\/strong> Choose the appropriate protocol\/domain. Inside the &#8220;<strong>In Directory<\/strong>&#8221; field, should you want to install this in a directory, i.e., example.com\/directory, enter the directory name. Otherwise, leave it blank to install in your main domain, i.e., example.com.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Enter the following details under the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> field:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Site Name: <\/strong>Name of your Forum like Your Domain Name &#8211; My Forum Name.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Site Description: <\/strong>Site Description.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/Phorum-install-screen.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n8.<\/strong> Under the <strong>Admin Account<\/strong> field, enter the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Username:<\/strong> Your new Phorum username (for security reason do not use the Administrator or the Admin username.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Password:<\/strong> Use a strong password.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Email: <\/strong>Your e-mail address. (Useful for administrator account password reset, notification, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/Phorum-install-screen2.gif\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Copy the admin username and password on a notepad because you will need these login details to access the admin area of your Phorum Forum.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>9.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Advanced Options: <\/strong>Leave this as it is unless you want to change the database name or take an automated backup. Please note that taking frequent backups may take a lot of disk space.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Finally, scroll down to the end of the page and click on the Install button.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/softaculous-install-button.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Log into your cPanel account. 2. In the Software section, click on the Softaculous App Installer Icon. 3. cPanel will redirect you to the Softaculous Panel. 4. On the left side of your screen, you should locate the Forums category. Click on it and then click on the Phorum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum-cpanel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}