Before we look at vBulletin in detail from the perspective of the administrator, let's take a look at it from the user perspective.
In the last chapter we got vBulletin working, and the discussion board that we set up is open and ready for visitors.
First question that people have is "Where is the board?" The answer to this depends on where it was installed.
If you installed it into the root of your website, then accessing the site is all you need to do.
So, for example, if your site is at www.example.com and you installed vBulletin into the root folder, then just typing http://www.example.com into the browser will take you to it (the main 'page' of vBulletin is a file called index.php)
. Similarly, if you typed http://www.example.com/index.php, you would get to the main page of the forum.
If, on the other hand, you installed the vBulletin software into a folder on the server, then you would need to access that folder. We installed it into...