phpBBHS Forum Hosting Script 1.0

phpBBHS Forum Hosting Script 1.0 is designed as an excellent and useful phpBB3 forum hosting system. Using phpBBHS allows people to sign up and create their own forum. Script uses only one set of files to run thousands of forums, and every forum has its own tables in database not shared with other forums.

Ads can be placed in header, footer, near copyright in footer and custom ad locations can be added easily. Subdomains for forums. All hosted forums will have their own subdomains, like user1.domain.com, user2.domain.com, etc... Easy website content administration (small CMS with powerful template system). 

Forum hosting script is a script that allows your visitors to create new forums on your website. All visitor has to do to create a new forum is fill out a simple form, then script will automatically create a forum.

Forums that users create include all normal phpBB 3 functions and some extra functions:

• Users can upload logos and other parts of forum image set to their forum.
• Users can add their own smilies, rank images and forum images.
• Other similar scripts provide only ability to upload logo images, this script offers much more customization options, including full control over css, while preventing users from accessing stuff they shouldn't have access to (files and areas where they can insert malicious code).

Benefits:

• You can place advertising on all hosted forums via phpBBHS control panel and earn revenue from your website.
• Your users do not have any access to files, so they cannot install anything else and cannot mess up forums.
• All hosted forums share same set of files, so its easy to manage files.
• phpBBHS has a huge admin control panel (control panel demo) where you can manage all hosted forums.
• Script provides you with functionality needed to install modifications to all hosted forums without having to manually edit every forum's database, which makes installation of mods very simple. It does not mean that you can install any mods without having a clue of what that mod does, just like with normal phpBB you can mess up mod installation if you don't have a clue, so if you are new to phpBB modding then I recommend to not to install many mods.
• Script does not modify any phpBB styles, so it is compatible with all normal phpBB 3 styles and all you have to do in order to make style installable is to upload it to directory "styles", just like in usual phpBB.

Major Features:

1. Script uses only one set of files to run thousands of forums, and every forum has its own tables in database not shared with other forums.
2. Modular control panel where you can administrate all forums. Because control panel is modular, you can add/remove features yourself by adding or removing modules.
3. You can search, edit, delete, suspend any forum hosted on your server. Search function allows you to search hosted forum by multiple parameters.
4. You can easily add ad banners to all hosted forums from phpBBHS control panel. Ads can be placed in header, footer, near copyright in footer and custom ad locations can be added easily. Ads can be adsense compliant (being shown only on content pages), or being shown on all pages. You can enable/disable ads for any forum, or set custom ads for forum or all forum that use certain domain and/or style and/or assigned to a certain category.
5. Domains
   • Subdomains for forums. All hosted forums will have their own subdomains, like user1.domain.com, user2.domain.com, etc...
   • Multiple domain names, custom domain names. You can setup as many domain names as you want, so users could select which one to use. For example, a user can use myforum.domain1.com or myforum.domain2.com if you setup domain1.com and domain2.com. You can also assign custom domains to any forums, so owner of that forum could use his own domain name.
   • If more than one domain is available, forum owners can choose which domain to use during registration and can change it any time later from control panel.
6. Databases
   • Multiple databases. Administrator can select which database new forums will be using, can setup them in rotation so new registrations circle thru list of databases.
   • You can move forums from one database to another for load balancing between database servers.
   • You can run sql queries on single forums, whole databases, several selected forums.
   • You can backup forums and restore backups. When restoring backups, script only runs sql queries that affect tables of that forum, so if one of your users wants to restore his own backup, script won't allow any malicious sql queries to be executed. There is an option to automatically update forum database to latest phpBB version after restoring a backup.
7. Performance
   • Script doesn't add much overhead to forums, there are no extra sql queries on hosted forums.
   • Everything that can be cached is being cached to prevent parsing same data every session.
8. Security
   • Word filter for hosted forums. You can disallow certain words to be posted on all hosted forums with ability to ban user on attempt to post text that contains certain filtered word.
   • Hosted forum do not have access to settings that might cause problems, such as SMTP settings, acp/ucp/mcp modules, database backup/restore, templates editor and many other settings.
   • You can login as administrator on any forum hosted on your website to monitor or to manage it.
   • You can set permissions for forum styles, so only selected forums could use a certain style, which can be used to upload custom styles for hosted forums without other hosted forums having access to it.
   • Captcha for all forms. Captcha is easy to customize.
   • Automatic temporary or permanent bans when visitor tries to do something he's not supposed to, like using banned keywords on registration form or repeatedly trying to login using invalid password.
   • Several additional anti spam features.
9. Other features
   • Attachments are disabled by default, but you can enable it for any forum without affecting other forums.
   • Registration form is easily to customise, it includes visual confirmation, forum names are filtered with ability to instantly ban visitor on attempt to use censored word, you can ban IPs and email providers (all popular disposable email providers have already been added to default ban list and you can add/remove them any time), there are several settings to block spam and flood attempts. You can set registrations to check user's email address by sending him validation email, also you can set all registrations to be validated by you. Inactive registrations are automatically deleted after certain time (customisable). You can also create forums and test registration form from control panel.
   • Mass email. You can send emails to admins of all hosted forums, or selected forums from search results.
   • You can change configuration for all hosted forums from phpBBHS control panel.
   • You can manage acp/ucp/mcp phpBB modules for all hosted forums from phpBBHS control panel.
   • Forum administrators can upload or link remotely hosted custom logos, icons, edit imageset and css for styles. There are security checks to prevent them from adding malicious code.
   • Unlike in some other scripts, forum styles do not require any modifications in order to work with phpBBHS. This means you can easily offer many styles to your customers without having to edit each of them.
   • Easy website content administration (small CMS with powerful template system). Website is SEO friendly, includes directory of hosted forums and news you can add/remove in phpBBHS control panel. Website is easy to translate to your language because all text constants are in one language file and website template files.
   • phpBB forum hosting script can run from a subdirectory, such as http://your_host/v3/, so you can use it on existing hosting website, such as phpBB 2 hosting website.

Requirements:

• Server requirements
• • Dedicated IP address. Any dedicated server, VPS or reseller account has at least one dedicated IP address, so it shouldn't be a problem.
  • "safe_mode" php configuration variable should be disabled.
  • Wildcard DNS for subdomains, so domains like anything.your_domain.com would work. If you don't know how to setup it on your host, use third party dns servers such as EveryDNS. Its very easy to setup and will not be a problem.
  • MySQL. Currently there are no plans to support any other databases. Required version is at least 4.0, which ever server should have. Script handles mySQL 4.0 and 4.1 (or newer) differently, I recommend to use version 4.1 or newer for better UTF8 support.
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• Recommended configuration

• • Linux server or Windows.
  • Apache with mod_rewrite. You can use ISAPI Rewrite on IIS. Script might work on other servers or without mod_rewrite, but apache+mod_rewrite is recommended.
  • GD php module with FreeType support. It is not a requirement, but it is recommended as image verification uses GD to create images. If you don't know how to enable GD module on your server, check support forum for documentation.
• Recommended hosting
• • Another option is a VPS. Almost all VPS providers will give you a VPS that meets those requirements. It's cheap, it's easy to scale, so when your website will grow bigger you can ask provider to allocate more resources for your VPS without having to move.