Installing phpBB Forum/Bulletin Board on Debian
12#phpBB #BulletinBoard #Linux
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials...
01. Log into the Debian device
02. Run the following commands in a terminal:
update repositories and install any available software updates
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client curl
install PHP components
sudo apt install php php-mysql php-cli php-json php-opcache php-gd php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip
configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation
03. Press Enter to login as root
04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
11. Run the following commands to create the phpbb database and database user
CREATE DATABASE phpbb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL ON phpbb.* TO 'phpbb_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '!!phpBB##';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract phpBB in the Apache webroot
download latest phpbb version
sudo wget -O phpbb.tar.gz https://download.phpbb.com/pub/releas...
extract phpbb.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf phpbb.tar.gz --directory /var/www
rename phpbb folder
sudo mv /var/www/phpBB* /var/www/phpbb
create a new phpbb.conf file to configure the site
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpbb.conf
13. Paste the following configuration into phpbb.conf
Alias /phpbb "/var/www/phpbb/"
≪Directory /var/www/phpbb/≫
AllowOverride All
≪/Directory≫
14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to phpbb.conf
15. Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
enable the phpbb site and required PHP modules
sudo a2ensite phpbb
sudo a2enmod rewrite
set the owner of the new phpbb directory to www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/phpbb
restart apache2 service
sudo systemctl restart apache2
16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb
17. The phpBB introduction screen should be displayed
18. Click the Install tab
19. Click the Install button
20. Input an administrator username, email address and password ≫ Click Submit
21. Enter the database hostname, username, password and database name ≫ Click Submit
22. Click the Submit button on the Server configuration page
23. Click the Submit button on the E-mail configuration page
24. Enter a title and short description on the Bulletin board configuration page ≫ Click Submit
25. When the installation completes run the following command in terminal to delete the /install directory
sudo rm /var/www/phpbb/install -r
26. In a web browser, navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb
27. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted forum with phpBB
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