[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

I think installing PHP and MySQL on localhost is beyond the scope of the bbPress support forums. Looks like you already found this:

http://us2.php.net/mysql

It would be less stressful to just get a hosting account that already supports those PHP and MySQL, then install bbPress there. Then the site can be Internet accessible as well.

Regarding flat file forum software:

myUPB

PBLang

I don’t have experience with any of those, just found them at http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You could also use a hosted solution like Yahoo! Groups or something like that.