Quote by gramps: Could you explain to me why Geeklog was such a headache, and PHPbb was so painless? I really want to know what the problem was. I would still like to use Geeklog.
Sorry to hear you had such a hard time.
In my experience, when people start getting errors, they are sometimes trying to fix things on their own and make things worse. If you follow the installation instructions precisely (and assuming you know some basic things such as what your paths are and how to do a chmod), a Geeklog site should be up and running within a few minutes.
If you're running into trouble, read the error message carefully and try to understand it. People often look for the problem in the wrong file, for example, because they misread the error message. The most common problems are listed in a separate section in the installation instructions - those should cover all the problems people usually run into.
bye, Dirk