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Have domain, hosting, forum setup locally, now how to pull them all together to make live?
user3028938
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Domain was bought separately to hosting. So how do I link domain to the vps?
Forum I setup using LAMP stack locally, so then how to put on the the server and make the whole thing live?
I guess I have some mucking about to do with ssl certificates too?
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Why not let a panel handle it, while running all modules?
i love your posts
You can probably check YouTube for a tutorial.
Create A/AAAA/CNAME dns records to point to the VPS.
For SSL, checkout letsencrypt...
Please google, youtube, or even ask AI for more details as they can help way better than I can.
Honestly, if you are asking these questions, you shouldn't use a VPS for a live forum. It will get hacked.
Go with cheap Shared Hosting. It’s much safer, easier to migrate your files/DB, and handles SSL automatically.
That's why I didn't try to explain it in details and just said to google/youtube/ai as I assume those things will at least have some basic hardening details. But, if I'm being honest, I think OP is probably one of the people that need to learn things the hard way...
Its like walking into a library and asking where to read a book. Either i overestimate the crowd in this forum or op just farming post count.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with the other comments here.
If you're not sure, I wouldn't risk cobbling it together. I'm sure you'll be able to get it up and running but how are you going to script backups? What are you going to do if something breaks? What about upgrades?
Get a shared hosting package until you outgrow it.
I will pay someone here in crypto to help up to $300 dollars, if someone can pm me. I neverdid this stuffs before, just use windoze
@user3028938 — grab some cheap hosting plan from here and you can deploy your forum in just a few clicks. You will need a VPS much later, when your forum is successful enough to reach the limits of your hosting plan.
Disclaimer: Even if you'd drop the up to i'd have a very bad feeling in regards to the dollars being worth the hassle.
Having said that: What does your idea of help include? Getting this thing you have setup? Transferring your local setup to a server? Teaching you how to do it? Anything related to setting up the server in general (security, ...)?
The big problem here is that even if you tried you couldn't really define it since you simply don't know putting anyone agreeing to do it (not really knowing what you expect it to be...) into a pretty awkward position where it might include a massive amount of headache or even you not being satisfied because of mismatched expectations and the guy wasting his time for nothing.
It's way better for everyone if you'd take people's advice and either worked your way through a bunch of howtos (and ideally a bit of Linux/admin basics) until you feel capable of doing it yourself (you can install VirtualBox and setup a Linux VM where you can try out stuff to your hearts content) or you just stick to shared hosting for now and train for the next step on the side.
1 put that $300 in a claude plan;
2 tell claude cli in max mode make it run (do not forget to prompt "remove all bugs");
3 profit.
I think you meant "no mistakes" for step 2. Legitimately though, this would very likely work to get it up and running. If it stays that way is another story. I admit that I've learned this way. I'm not trying to run a forum that is likely to be a target though.
sftp all your local files to your webhosting provider or /var/www if you run your own box
Thanks, simple practical advice; all I asked for.