This is the name of your forum, ie. "The Testing Forum".

This is the URL to your forum without the trailing '/'!.
In most cases, you can leave the default value in this box alone - it is usually right.

This function does not work properly on all servers, but can save you a lot of bandwidth.
Click here to test it. (it should just say "PASS".)

This feature is almost always for the best, as it makes sessions more dependable.

This feature lets both the database and the forum use an international character set, UTF-8. This can be useful when working with multiple languages that use different character sets.

If enabled, this will allow Simple Machines to visit your site once a month to collect basic statistics. This will help us make decisions as to which configurations to optimize the software for. For more information please visit our info page.

Multiple supported database types were detected - which do you wish to use.

This is nearly always localhost - so if you don't know, try localhost.

Fill in the username you need to connect to your database here.
If you don't know what it is, try the username of your ftp account, most of the time they are the same.

Here, put the password you need to connect to your database.
If you don't know this, you should try the password to your ftp account.

Fill in the name of the database you want to use for SMF to store its data in.
If this database does not exist, this installer will try to create it.

This is the name of the file in which to store the SMF data. We recommend you use the randomly generated name for this and set the path of this file to be outside of the public area of your webserver.

The prefix for every table in the database. Do not install two forums with the same prefix!
This value allows for multiple installations in one database.