AsmBB is an open-source bulletin board system designed for x86 and x64 assembly language programmers. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps of installing AsmBB on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before starting the installation process, you need to ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
To install AsmBB on Alpine Linux Latest, you need to have certain packages installed. Open the terminal and execute the following command to update the package list:
sudo apk update
Once the package list is updated successfully, install the required packages for AsmBB with the following command:
sudo apk add nginx mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-server-utils mariadb-server
After installing the packages, configure the Nginx web server to serve the AsmBB application.
First, create a new server block for the AsmBB using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/asm32.info.conf
Inside the file, add the following Nginx configuration code:
server {
listen 80;
server_name asm32.info www.asm32.info;
root /var/www/asm32.info;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save and close the file.
Next, restart the Nginx web server with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Now, proceed with the installation of the AsmBB application. First, create a new directory for the AsmBB application files:
sudo mkdir /var/www/asm32.info
Then, download the latest version of AsmBB using the following command:
sudo wget https://github.com/asm32-org/asm32-info-board/archive/master.zip -O asm32-info-board-master.zip
After downloading, extract the ZIP archive with the following command:
sudo unzip asm32-info-board-master.zip -d /var/www/asm32.info
Then, rename the folder to a shorter name for easier usage with the following command:
sudo mv /var/www/asm32.info/asm32-info-board-master /var/www/asm32.info/board
Now, configure the AsmBB installation by editing the config.php file with the following command:
cd /var/www/asm32.info/board && sudo nano config.php
Inside the file, change the following options:
$config['base_url'] = 'http://asm32.info';
$config['db_name'] = 'asm32db';
$config['db_user'] = 'asm32user';
$config['db_pass'] = 'YourPassword';
Change the "YourPassword" option to your own secure password, and save and close the file.
Next, create a new database for AsmBB using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
create database asm32db;
grant all privileges on asm32db.* to asm32user@localhost identified by 'YourPassword';
exit;
Change the "YourPassword" option to the same password you used in the config.php file.
Then, import the database using the following command:
mysql -u asm32user -p asm32db < /var/www/asm32.info/board/asm32_info_board.sql
To ensure proper functionality of AsmBB, you need to set appropriate permissions for certain files and directories using the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/asm32.info/board
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/asm32.info/board
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/asm32.info/board/application/logs
Finally, test the AsmBB application by visiting http://asm32.info in your web browser. If everything was configured correctly, you should see the AsmBB home page.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed AsmBB on Alpine Linux Latest!
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