For a while I'd wanted to make my own opinion site, sort of like slashdot.org, but with a totally different focus. After doing some research I chose PHP-Nuke as the Content Management Solution and I was looking for a Web Host. I decided to try Yahoo Small Business Services because I was really satisfied with the way they allow me to manage my personal domain and asumed that their web hosting solutions would be just as friendly... and I was right.

However, I wasn't able to find any specific information on how to set up PHP-Nuke site using any of Yahoo SBS' web hosting plans, so I explored on my own and now that I set up my site I am publishing a few instructions on how to do it hoping that other people might find this info useful.

Which plan should I choose?
Basically, any plan will be fine.

I used the web hosting plan with the lowest profile: Web Hosting Starter (click here for a comparison chart). It includes everything you need to set up a PHP-Nuke site: PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and other utilities like DB backup and an easy to use file manager. And of course the plan also includes free domain registration, FTP accounts; email accounts with imap, pop3 or webmail; statistics... everything you would expect from a professional web host.

You can use Y! SBS' built-in editor to modify .php, .html files.

The other plans provide basically the same features only with larger hard-disk space and bandwith, more subdomains, more e-mail accounts. It will be a long time until I need more features I suppose.

Which version of PHP-Nuke?
At the moment of this writing Y! SBS provides an installation utility for PHP-Nuke 6.5. But (at least theoretically) you can update to a newer version or install a new version from scratch using the database utilities included with the plan.

The site will run on a FreeBSD 4.11 Unix server with PHP Version 4.3.11. The database server is MySQL 4.1.14 and you can also setup phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-pl1 to manage the database.

Not-So-Instant Gratification
Once you submit your order with Y! SBS for a web hosting plan, you will have to wait for a period of time before you are actually able to do anything. This is mostly due to domain name propagation. Ideally you will be able to start working on your site within a few hours after you submit your order.

Web Hosting Control Panel
One of the most remarkable things about Y! SBS hosting solutions is the Control Panel. It is very comprehensive and is loaded with features.


I am going to skip all the features and go directly to setting up a PHP-Nuke site. Click on the Create and Update tab link. Now, scroll down and click on Add-Ons. Click on PHP-Nuke.

Now you are starting to set up your PHP-Nuke site. Agree with the terms (you might even read them if you want). You will be prompted if you want to use a sub-domain or if you rather install it in the root directory. I chose the second option.

You will have to be patient here and wait a few minutes until your site and the corresponding database are being put together by Y! SBS. The first time I attempted to install PHP-Nuke I got an error saying that the database could not be configured. I tried again and it worked the second time. Go figure!

In the final step you will have to set up the credentials of the PHP-Nuke site's administrator.

In Part II of this series I will discuss how to manage the files and the database for your PHP-Nuke site using the File Manager utility, Database Utilities and phpMyAdmin.

Labels: PHP, PHP-Nuke, Web Publishing, Yahoo Small Business Services

posted by Ghostspook @ 7:29 PM   4 comments

Just wanted to say thanks for the post on PHP-Nuke with Yahoo hosting. I use Yahoo hosting but did not know they had an install for PHP-Nuke. I am planning to do the install in the next week or so.

Steve

My phpnuke 6.5 site hosted on yahoo was hacked into and modified. Does anyone have some suggestions as to how to install a newer and more secure version of phpnuke on yahoo?

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