Hey there. Well, I'm trying to make a site with XOOPS. I have no idea where to begin. So let me explain what I did.

I registered for a free hosting site. They offered full FTP support. So I decided to register with them (since I know that XOOPS would require me to install the folder via the FTP)

Well, once I uploaded the entire folder to my FTP account and went on my site... it did not have an XOOPS installation or anything. It would just say '403 Forbidden' and when I typed in my URL/xoops it still wouldn't work. What did I do wrong? And how can I install XOOPS properly? Help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully you can explain this to me in a noobie mannor, since I'm completely new with this program.

You should take a look at this series of articles on xoopswiki.org

Hi,

do they have PHP and MySQL? You need PHP support and MySQL database to run XOOPS ...