The administration control panel (ACP) is the phpBB 3.3 one. You open it from My forums (“Open administration”), or from the ACP link at the top of your forum when you are signed in with an administrator account; phpBB then asks for your credentials again before letting you in.
The tabs
- General: board configuration (settings, features, registration, posting…), reports and reasons.
- Forums: categories and forums.
- Posting: BBCodes, smilies, topic icons, word censoring.
- Users and Groups: members, groups, ranks, bans.
- Permissions: rights of groups and members.
- Tools: the platform’s own features (see Platform features).
- Maintenance: admin, moderator and user logs.
What the platform handles for you
The forum is installed, configured and kept up to date by the team. Screens that deal with the server are therefore not offered: extensions, style and language installation, server and cookie settings, search settings, database backups. You have no access to files, to the database or to FTP.
Platform messages
The panel home page may show information or an important message from the platform. A Compliance requested notice has a deadline: make the correction, then click “Done” to let the team know. After the deadline, the team may deactivate and then delete the forum.