I've been playing around with phpbb, and it's rather nice.

One question though, is it possible to have more than one community hosted on on server? In other words, I have my domain setup, and one community at the moment. Rather than making certain sections hidden, and others visible, I'd rather have another community up and running.

one assumes I'd need another SQL database to point to? or could I use my existing one?

I would try phpbb support, but the search system seems to return a blank page when trying to search

So, anyone have any ideas on this? is it possible? if so, how?

 

You can use the same database - depends on how large your communities are going to get and whether you would need to export the database later on if you decided to get rid of that forums etc etc. Personally, I use separate databases for each appliction. For each message board yoo upload, you would pop it in a folder pertinent to that community instead of calling the folder PHPbb, as you would if you were only having one message board under your domain.

Did that make sense? I've been at work since 7.30 am so Im a bit braindeader than usual :/

 

Upload the files into different directories (/forum1, /forum2, etc). Then when you go through the phpBB installation, it asks you what prefix all the tables should be given, the default being something like "phpbb_". If you change this prefix on the second community, then they become totally separate with different tables just sharing the same database.

If you can create two databases instead, that would be better; some providers may only let you create one database so the above would work.