[Jansar]

phpbb is a free bulletin board that I've been trying to set up for the past couple of days without luck. I have all the files on my computer, a Mac OS Server 10.2, and when I follow the directions instead of an installation screen, I just get an index of files. Anyone have luck before? Thanks.

[tikki]

Do you have mysql and php installed and running?

[philzilla]

what happens when you call www.your.url/board/index.php directly? not all servers have index.php in their DirectoryIndex listing. if you call that call up in your browser, and see the right things (ie: phpBB's installation screen), then you need to add an .htaccess file to the board's directory, with the following line:
DirectoryIndex index.php

that just tells the server to serve up index.php, if someone just asks for www.your.url/board/

as it's your machine, you can add that info directly into the httpd.conf

also, having php/mysql installed and running would be rather useful

[Jansar]

You both were right about enabling PHP and MySQL. They are not enabled by default, and I thought they were. I fixed that.