Now that you have come this far, you are probably eager to access the Control Panel and get started.
Click on the link on the Step 13 page to access the Control Panel. (You will need to have deleted the install/install.php
file before being able to continue.)
After clicking on the link you will then need to enter the username and password you assigned to the administrator during the installation of vBulletin.
Once you log into the Control Panel, you are faced with a lot of information! Don't worry though—it is well organized, and you will quickly learn where everything is.
Down the left hand side you have a menu that allows you access to all the important features of vBulletin.
Here they are organized into categories and sub-categories.
In the right-hand pane you get information about the version—notice how we are being told that there is a newer version of vBulletin available. That's a really handy feature, and later on we'll show you how to upgrade the forum software quickly and easily.
We suggest that you spend some going through the menus and familiarizing yourself with the options and settings available—especially if this is your first installation of vBulletin. We will pick up the tour of the vBulletin Control Panel in Chapter 3. Now we need to go and look at importing data from another discussion board into vBulletin.