I bought a XenForo license about an hour ago and I'm now trying to upload it to my web host. I'm using cPanel. The installation instructions provided by XenForo don't make sense to me. Can someone walk me through it?
IT is easy to install xenforo, all you need to do is download xenforo from this site. Then unzip all of the files to a folder on your cpu. Then you will need a program like Filezilla or smart ftp to upload the files to your server.
So I use FileZilla because it is free and good to use.
Then you go to your webhosting website and log into your cpanel. In your cpanel you have to find your ftp login information. By default you should have an admin ftp account that automatically is created when you join your webhost. This is the one you will use to Log into lets say filezilla. When you load into your server, you then have to find where your website is located. Should be inside the folder that says public_html.
Click inside that folder and then create a sub folder called user, or community or c. So i use user so the Url looks like
www.oO5Dynasty.com/user/oO5Dynasty I am saying this person is an user of my site. But you can just make a community folder its up to you. Create new directory is what you are doing inside the Public_html folder.
After you create the folder you just select all of the files in the xenforo zip you downloaded and drag them to this community folder you created. This will put xenforo on the server, and to access the board, you need to look at steps 3 and so on on this page.
https://xenforo.com/help/installation/
Just go over this page a few times and if you have trouble PM me and well talk.
https://xenforo.com/help/installation/