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Today, I will talk to you about whether it is possible to build a forum using a virtual host. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following content for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Virtual hosts can build forums. The main purpose of the virtual host is to build websites, such as personal websites, small and medium-sized enterprises websites, portals, industry websites, etc., of course, you can also build forums.

Forums are generally based on discuz, phpwind, Vanilla, Phorum, OpenSNS and other forum systems, among which discuz and phpwind are more popular in our country. So how do we build these forums through virtual hosting?

1. Direct use

Some cloud services will provide such website system pre-installed services, such as. Provide a variety of website system pre-installation, including discuz, phpwind, WordPress, dedecms and so on.

After purchasing a good virtual host, we go to the virtual host control panel and find the "pre-installed software" function. Under this function, we select a website system and "confirm installation" to install the program under the virtual host.

Then, we use the domain name to access the virtual host to complete the system configuration. In this way, we can quickly build a forum.

2. Download by yourself

There are some cloud service providers do not have pre-installed services, we need to download various website systems.

First of all, we go to the official website of the forum, download their program, or design a set of our own. Here, it is recommended to download to the official, to avoid third-party website programs with incidental content, affecting the use and security.

Second, install a FTP software, after the installation is successful, start the software, and then create a new site management. Enter the FTP address, user name and password of the virtual host and connect. So we can connect to the virtual host through FTP.

Third, the downloaded forum program is uploaded to the root directory of the virtual host through FTP software, which is generally named wwwroot, root, web and so on.

Fourth, after the upload is completed, we can access the virtual host through the domain name to verify whether it is successful. If you need to configure the system, just follow the prompts.

Both of these methods can be used to build a forum through the purchased virtual host, and if you have any questions in the process of use, you can consult the virtual hosting service provider.

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