Installing MyBB
Want to install MyBB on your site without too much effort? Here is a very simple guide to installing the very reliable forum software.
First things first, download the .zip file of MyBB, which you can find at MyBB's homepage on their download page. Go to a program that can unzip files (Windows XP has this feature by default), and if you don't have a program, I recommend using 7-Zip or Peazip (the program I use). Now, select the MyBB .zip file, and extract the contents of the file. This will give you two folders: Documentation and Upload.
Upload the contents of the folder Upload onto a folder/domain on your website or upload the Upload folder itself and move the files onto the real domain (I recommend naming the folder or domain to community, mybb, or forums).
When you are done uploading all of the files, go onto your server, change the permissions to each of these files and folders to their specified permission:
./inc/settings.php to 666
./cache/ to 777
./cache/themes/ to 777
./uploads/ to 777
./uploads/avatars/ to 777
After all of the files' permissions are modified, go to the install folder on your forums. For example, if your forums is located at http://yoursite.com/forums, you can find the folder at http://yoursite.com/forums/install. When you go on the first page of the installer, just click the Next button, and go on to the next page. At the license agreement page, read the license agreement (if you want to), but it simply says not to remove the credits from the forums (or worse, claim it as your own).
At the requirements check page, it just simply checks if all of the requirements in order to install the forums are intact. If they are, just click next. On the database configuration page, fill in the required information. If you do not know any of this information, contact your host and they will probably guide you through the process. On the table creation, data insertion, and theme installation pages, just click Next and move on. On the board configuration page, MyBB has filled in the information for you, but if any of it is incorrect or if you want to modify any of it, just change the information. On the administrator account page, just fill in your e-mail, password, and e-mail.
After that, you're done! Have fun with your new installation of MyBB!