Can you have WordPress AND phpBB on a free hosted site?

[leelaxx1]

My old site was deleted because I didn't use it enough, but I thought I was able to use BOTH Wordpress and phpBB.

Is that no longer the case? I installed WordPress successfully, but when I try to use the cpanel to install phpBB, I get this message:

The new website details you've entered appear to be already in use by the softaculous website NAME.x10host.com. Please remove the existing website or change your details below to continue creating a new website.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Dead-i]

Hi,

You're likely using the x10Hosting Basic control panel, which allows you to use one auto-installer per domain. There are a couple of ways you can work around this, though...

1) You could switch to the standard cPanel x3 theme by clicking Switch Theme in the top right, then Switch to cPanel x3. It will take you to the traditional cPanel theme, where you can use Softaculous manually from there.

2) Alternatively, you could add a subdomain for your forums (e.g. forums.mydomain.x10host.com) from the Domains section, and then install phpBB through x10Hosting Basic from there.

 

[leelaxx1]

Dead-i,

Thanks for the response. Sorry for the newbie question, but can you explain the difference between doing it under option #1, or having my phpBB as a SUBFORUM? If my site is going to be WordPress, but I want to be able to have users using my phpBB to communicate in a forum setting, which is the better option?

Thanks.

 

[leelaxx1]

Anyone? Bueller?

 

[essellar]

It's just a question of taxonomy (naming things). There's no "better", there's just "makes more sense to me in this case". A subdomain will be indexed as a separate site by search engines, where a "/forums" will be seen as part of the same site. Both of those have good and bad points (everything in one place is good, unless the forum conversations are making your "real" information harder to find).