Add to Forum to an existing WP on Shared Hosting?

[Lv&Lrn]

I am rebuilding an old site that had a forum. I've rebuilt the site in WordPress, cPanel shared hosting. Can I add this forum software to the same host? Please assume I have enough hosting resources, like databases etc.

If the answer is no, what do people do who want a WP site for content management, and use this software for the forum typically do?

Lastly, if this is a common question, and there are good resources on this, please feel free to guide me to them.

BTW, I came here because I used builtwith to look at a couple of forums that I use for my other hobby, fixing Mercedes, and this seems to be the winner.

 

[Paul B]

As long as the server meets the requirements and multiple databases are permitted then yes, XF can be installed.

The requirements are:

• PHP: 7.0 (PHP 8.0 recommended)
• MySQL: 5.5 (MariaDB / Percona also compatible)
• PHP extensions: MySQLi, GD (with JPEG support), PCRE, cURL, SPL, SimpleXML, DOM, JSON, iconv, ctype
• Common PHP functions must not be disabled

 

[Mr Lucky]

and this seems to be the winner.

It is.

You will need to install xenforo into a subdirectory, e.g. /community/ - I would avoid using the word /forums/ for the subdirectory as xenforo uses that within some of its URLs, so you can end up with an ungainly /forums/forums/ URL


Alternatively you could move your Wordpress pages into a subdirectory and install xenforo in the root.