Installing phpbb2 with firebird support

download phpbb2.1x from this page

wget http://area51.phpbb.com/cvs/phpbb22/phpBB22-CVS_200506041100.tar.gz

tar -zxvf phpBB22-CVS_200506041100.tar.gz

install firebird extension

apt-get install php4-interbase

enable interbase (firebird) extension in php.ini (uncomment line with extension=interbase.so ) and restart apache server

check if firebird server is installed
on debian unstable i have installed thouse

with apt-get install [Name of package]

firebird2-dev - Development files for Firebird
firebird2-examples - Examples for Firebird
firebird2-server-common - Common files for Firebird
firebird2-utils-super - Utilities for Firebird
firebird2-super-server - Firebird Super Server

If you dont like Super-Server , classic can be installed

Verify that php extension is really loaded php_info()
then start installing

example.com/phpBB2/install/install.php

Uncomment the notice in common.php