Introduction: phpBB is one of the most popular open source free discussion forum software for the establishment of the Community. Setting it up is may be difficult for you first.  Follow the following steps to make it easy

Stepwise Instructions and Guide

eHowis | Steps(1) Purchase any cheap hosting that will provide MySQL database service like “ StreamLine “ (OR) ” 1and1 “ or you can get it free at ” 000webhost ” [Note: In free hosting you will not have all services like the paid hosting, However you can have MySQL database service for the installation of phpBB forum software]

eHowis | Step(2) Download the stable phpBB software install zip file and unzipped them in the folder on to your computer.

eHowis | Step(3) Log on to you web hosting control panel and create a new mySQL database with username and password

eHowis | Step(4) Log on to your website through FTP client by giving the username and password of your website account

eHowis | Step(5) Upload the contents of the phpBB ( created when you unzipped the phpBB install zip file to your computer) to the location you’ve chosen for your forum. This could be the root directory of your Web site or a subdirectory i.e public_html

eHowis | Step(6) Change the permissions on config.php to be writable by all (666 or -rw-rw-rw- within your FTP Client) also change the permissions on the directories (store/, cache/, files/ and images/avatars/upload/.) to be writable by all (777 or -rwxrwxrwx within your FTP Client)

eHowis | Step(7) Go to the webpage where you placed the phpBB with the addition of install/index.php . For example http://www.example.com/phpbblocation/install/install.php , where www.example.com is your domain and “phpbblocation” is the directory where you placed the phpBB files If you placed them to the root directory of your Web site, then it would be
http://www.example.com/install/install.php

eHowis | Step(8) Go to Install tab and click on “Proceed to Next Step” and here check things out, If you have any of the supported database available then it would be fine for the phpbb installion

eHowis | Step(9) Click on “Start Install” and then enter the database information into their respective text fields which you created for phpBB from the web host control panel and click on “Proceed to Next Step”

> It would say test to database connection > Succesfull connection that means that your database connection is running fine for the phpBB. [If it would give error then recheck the database information that you have provided and submit again]

eHowis | Step(10) Click on “Proceed to next step” ,and Enter the admin email address, administrator username and administrator password (and confirmation) values into their respective fields.

eHowis | Step(11) Deleate the install directory from file manager by FTP client. You’re ready to go!