hello. i'm new to SMF. i was wondering if anyone could help me walk through the steps to install SMF? i downloaded it from the downloads section and extracted the files to a folder. so i'm unsure what's next i'm supposed to do. i'd appreciate any help you could offer :)
Hello and welcome!
You can have a look at then Online Manual for a lot of pages of information about SMF. I'll leave you some right here: Installing SMF (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Installing), Spam - my forum is flooded with spam, what can I do (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam%2C_what_can_I_do), CHMOD - What's that all about? (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf//CHMOD_-_What%2527s_that_all_about).
Online Manual (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Main_Page)
Regards :)
Hello there Korra and welcome to SMF community!
We're glad that you choose SMF as your forum software. Please take a look at our documentation regards Installing SMF (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Installing) as you should find all relevant information right there. If there's anything else we may help you with - feel free to ask here!
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Installing