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wanting to set up a private forum for a few companies to communicate


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i have a project of setting up a company forum for a few other companies to log into and share information, we want this forum to be completely private and not listed on anything. nothin fancy or anything just something that gets the job done and makes communication as a whole easier. what do i need? a server? a domaain? or should i just pay someone to do it?

 

just lookin for help if anyone can provide any, it would be greatly appreciated.

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Sounds like you need web hosting, most likely a domain name if you don't have one, and forum software. Assuming the forum doesn't require any custom functionality, there are quite a few free options to choose from, including phpBB, PunBB, Vanilla forum, etc. Unless your web host will install the forum for you, you will probably need to hire someone familiar with forums to install it for you and do the initial set up.

 

we want this forum to be completely private and not listed on anything

This should be possible -- whoever is doing the forum setup should know how to prevent search engines from finding the website, and the forum itself should be set up in such a way that only you can approve new members (this prevents strangers from joining) and only people who are members can view it.

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Hi,

 

This is easily done ... all you need:

 

  1. a domain name.
  2. cheap web hosting with PHP and MySQL support
  3. a free forum software - punbb, PHPBB etc
  4. a web nerd who can install and configure this for you. OR ..
  5. a little patience and you should be able to install this yourself.

 

All forum software will allow you to make the forums private and some will even allow you to set it up so the search engines are told to not scan the forum. That said, you don't even need the forum to do this because to send this instruction to the search engines, is super easy using a simple text file called robots.txt.

 

... All this is, is a text file that you place on the web server and this text file tells search engines what to do; to tell the engines to NOT scan your site/forum, all you need to write is this in the text file:

 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

 

 

Stefan

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