Authentication for Rainwave users is dependant on phpBB.
- If you want users to use your site for voting, rating, and requesting, you'll have to install the latest phpBB, 3.1 or above.
- If you're just running Rainwave for streaming audio, you do not need phpBB.
- If you are just testing/developing locally, you do not need phpBB.
phpBB and Rainwave must share the same database. Rainwave uses phpBB's tables and data. If you do not have phpBB, Rainwave will create its own fake phpBB data to put into the database.