phpBB problems

[Slartibartfast]

Hm, if you're using Apache, you need to edit the CONF file to load any of index.html or index.php as defaults. With IIS, there's some control panel that does the same thing, I think it normally loads default.htm or some nonsense like that.

I would think that you also need to create the database before installing this phpBB thing (I know I had to create the database when I installed osCommerce). So after you got MySQL running, open "mysql" and enter the following:

create database (yourdatabasename);
quit

After you run the install, it will probably point you to some SQL file so you can create tables and stuff. If that's the case, open a CMD window (DOS shell or whatever you call it), go to the mysql/bin directory and run:

mysql (yourdatabasename) < (yoursqlfile)