Sure I'll help you guys right now. I'm assuming you have at least no-ip setup. If not, follow those directions. If you have a domain name, use the zoneedit and directupdate instructions instead. Either way, lets hope you have an easy to remember address that points to your server.
These are step-by-step instructions. Many parts are obvious, but for the sake of elliminating any possibility of error, I'm including all steps.
1) Uninstall BigApache or AppServ.
2) Restart your computer.
3) Delete any remaining folders from BigApache or AppServ.
4) I suggest you guys use AppServ 2.4.0. It's very easy to use and install, and is the most stable version. So go to
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/appserv/appserv-win32-2.4.0.exe?download and download it.
5) Install AppServ (you can follow the AppServ installation directions at
http://ke-clan.com/apache/appserv.html (my site hosted with appserv 2.4.0). Once your finished, come back to this post.
6) Now visit
http://localhost/phpmyadmin. You can replace localhost with whatever your address is and that will work too.
7) You should be on a screen that says "Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.5.6". Click on the Priviledges link.
8) Click the Add a New User link.
9) Type in a new username (example ps2cho), leave host blank, type a password (example pass123), and confirm the password. See all the checkboxes under general priviledges? Click them all. Once they are all checked, click the Go button.
10) It will go to a new page that says you have added a new user. Close phpmyadmin, and open C:\AppServ\www\PhpMyAdmin\config.inc.php in WordPad.
11) Do a search for the word root. Once you find root, change it to whatever your new username is (example ps2cho). Right below it is a password field. It is blank. Change it to whatever your password is (example pass123) for your new username.
12) Do another search for the word $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri']. Next to it should be an address. Change it to
http://yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin/. Below is an example of what mine looks like:
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://ke-clan.com/phpmyadmin/';
13) Save the file, and exit WordPad.
14) Now go back to
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and go back to the Priviledges page. Put a check mark next to all the users except the one with your new username (example ps2cho). Make sure "Just delete the users from the privilege tables." is selected, and click the Go button.
15) You should now be on a page that says the selected users have been deleted. Now close phpmyadmin.
16) Open command prompt (Start > Run > "cmd" or "command")
17) Navigate to your phpmyadmin directory (C:\AppServ\www\phpmyadmin\)
18) Type "edit .htaccess" and press enter.
19) MSEdit will open a new file called .htaccess. Type the following:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secured Directory"
AuthUserFile c:/appserv/www/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd
require valid-user
20) Save and Exit MSEdit.
21) Now that we are back in command prompt, navigate to the directory C:\AppServ\apache\bin
22) Type the following:
htpasswd -c c:\appserv\www\phpmyadmin\.htpasswd ps2cho
(Replace ps2cho with whatever username you want)
23) Type a new password, press enter, and confirm your password. When it's finished it should say "Adding password for user ps2cho" (or whatever username you typed).
24) Restart Apache and MySQL. If you don't know how to do this, just restart your computer.
25) Now follow the phpNuke installation instructions near the top of this guide.
26) Open the config.php file with WordPad in your phpNuke directory, and edit the two lines of code where it asks for username and password to the database. Just do a search for "root" and replace it with your username, and fill in the password directly below it. Save and exit wordpad (or whatever you are using to edit the file).
Ok that was a lot of typing, but it will actually only take you a few seconds to follow each step. Hope that works.
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