Installing forums on to a subdomain

[buttstroke]

How do I do this? There are so many options on the ui I haven't figured it out yet.

[Infopro]

Installing a forum in a sub domain should be the same as installing in public_html.

[PlotHost]

It's very easy to install a forum script if you have Fantastico or Softaculous. Anyway ask your hosting company for some help.

[cPanelTristan]

Actually, the question is incredibly broad. We don't know how you are trying to install the forum. Are you using cPanel > Site Software area to install phpBB3? If so, then you'd log into cPanel and click on Site Software, then click on phpBB3, then select the subdomain in the "Installation URL:" dropdown after filling out the fields above it.

If you aren't using what cPanel provides but either Fantastico, Softaculous, or manually installing it, there are plenty of resources on Google to determine how to install a forum onto a subdomain. Typically, you first need to go into cPanel > MySQL Databases area to add a database, add a database user and add the database user to the database if you are installing manually. The only change during the manual setup would then be to ensure the files are uploaded to the subdomain and that the url points to the directory for the subdomain for the directory path.

While I agree your hosting provider should help with these questions, if the question was specifically about cPanel's Site Software area and installing onto phpBB3 for a subdomain, you are welcome to pose questions on what we provide here, since we support what we provide.