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    Posted: 29 August 2009 at 6:36pm
hi.
i followed the documentation and inserted a **/forum folder in my site, trying to install the forum.
however, when accessing **/forum, all i get is the Indexed folder, not the installation page.

can anyone assist?
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Not sure what you mean by **/forum or what you mean by indexed folder
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Re-read the installation guidelines -
1. Download forum software
2. Unzip it
3. Copy only the forum FOLDER into the directory that you plan to upload it to
Example www.mywebsite.co.uk/forum/

And then keep following the instructions and you should get there
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hi thanks i need not create another thread for the same topic
i also tried installing on mssql2000

i copied it on my root directory, webroot
and tried domainname.com
domainname.com/default.aspx

got follwoing error on executing it...

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01f4'

Variable is undefined: 'strDatabaseType'

/common.asp, line 70


yes i am on windows server.. and all specs are available i have onc again requested my host to inform complete specs...


i also tried executing setup.asp...

and i got same error but at different line no.






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To have got this error sounds like you either have a corrupted file or you have edited one of the files.

Upload the original un-edited files again and then let the install wizard take care of the database connection string etc.
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thanks
no i have not edited anything...

I will download again try
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I have the same problem - it worked in test locally, but when I loaded the (unedited) folder to my remote server, I get :

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access...

any ideas?  I did set the permissions on the database folder and I am using SQLServer 2008 and I have a database already there
 
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This could be due to either incorrect permissions set on the server and so the web server can not access the folder, or you have not setup your default documents correctly for the website.

Make sure that the anonymous website user has read permissions on the folder the forum is in and that you have setup default.asp as a default document for the website.
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