Help me get phpBB on an existing server

Hello I have an existing Windows 2003 Server with a website, mydomain.com on port 80. I’d like to install the phpBB bundle on this same server and add a DNS entry forums.mydomain.com. Can anybody help me do this? I’m sure it must be possible through the IIS host header redirecting but I don’t know how to do it.

Thanks.

Hi,

You can follow two approaches:
1- Change IIS port to a different one != 80. Install phpBB Stack or WAMPStack + phpBB module in port 80 and using hostname “forums.mydomain.com”. Then configure Apache to redirect the request to main host to the new IIS port, adding the following to apache2/conf/httpd.conf :

<VirtualHost *>

ServerName mydomain.com

ProxyRequests off

ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:<iis_port>/

ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:<iis_port>/

</virtualHost>

2- Setup phpBB on a different port != 80 using hostname “forums.mydomain.com”. Then, configure IIS to redirect the requests. I’m not familiar with IIS but something like this does the trick:
- Go to IIS Manager
- Add a new Web Site, in port 80 and with hostname “forums.mydomain.com”. If it asks you for the “path to home directory” you may setup $php_installdir/apache2/htdocs (we are going to change it to a redirection so it doesn’t really matter)
- Once the “Web Site” is created, go to its properties (left button click / properties) and set in “Home Directory” tab the option “the content should come from” to "a redirection to an url "
- Modify “redirect to” field to “http://forums.mydomain.com:8080/” (using the port where phpbb has been setup).
- Now all requests to http://forums.mydomain.com are redirected to apache server.

In both cases you may have to reconfigure the firewall to accept connections in the second port used.
Probably you can find a different IIS configuration more similar to first solution.

Let us know if it works for you.

Regards