Want to do your own forum, have good ideas, have a potential user base, but suffer from no professional technology? So now let's teach you how to build a forum with Discuz X3 program. What is the Forum/Space? Is a lot of text, pictures or videos in a certain arrangement to upload to a space, and then give them "www. Domain name.xxx" format take a name. This understanding is much simpler, so we need to arrange the contents of the program (Discuz program), space (server) to discharge our template program, and finally need to give our space a name (domain name) to let visitors find us.
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Don't want to spend money to buy your own domain name, there are many places on the Internet to register free domain names, but because it is free, your domain name usually has the publisher's suffix. And there are a lot of restrictions on the application of Discuz program, want to seriously do a forum, spend two or three hundred oceans to buy domain name and server space.
Read a lot of information, said that the domain name money to register a lot of unscrupulous black, this I have no say. People living abroad, registered a domain name and applied for a server on a foreign website, mainly stable and cheap performance, and 24-hour online chat service is very in place, has been used several times, each time very satisfied, the disadvantage is that there is no Chinese (but does not affect the Chinese forum operation).
Select your desired server and valid domain name, fill out your profile, and you will have your own domain name and server space. Download a version of Discuz program on comsenz official website, I use the latest Discuz X3.2, and download FTP upload tool.
Open FTP-> Settings and change the upload format to binary. Log in the ftp software using the database information given to you when registering the domain name in the previous step, and start to Upload the UPLOAD file package in the downloaded Discuz program to your server space. Detailed Discuz installation process, it is easy to find online, search it.
In a word, when I started the installation is a blank page, read a lot of online solutions are useless, and finally found that my server reseller provided the PHP version is too high, choose PHP5 instead of the default version of Php7 problem solved.
After the installation is successful, directly enter your domain name, Admin login, click the management, enter the background at this time also need to install Dreamweaver and photoshop
It is recommended to set up a zero-based forum from the global, interface, plate management, basically put your initial ideas, forum focus on the discussion content, the characteristics are reflected in your forum header, Logo and plate. To do the header and Logo need to use Photoshop, simple and practical.
Discuz and FTP are free, and Dreamweaver and photoshop both have 30-day free trials that allow you to design forums.
This is only the steps and methods I do the forum, can not be compared with professional, but zero foundation can also make their own satisfaction of the forum, I am very satisfied, and hope to help other zero foundation friends.