Orange Forum is an open-source forum software built to help you create an online community. It is a free alternative to paid forum software that you can host on your own server. Here's how to install Orange Forum on Elementary OS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation of Orange Forum, make sure that you have the following software installed:
You can install the above software by following the instructions given in the official documentation.
The first step is to download the Orange Forum package from the official website. You can download it from https://www.goodoldweb.com/download/orange_forum_latest.tar.gz.
You can use the wget command to download the package:
wget https://www.goodoldweb.com/download/orange_forum_latest.tar.gz
After downloading the package, extract it using the following command:
tar -zxvf orange_forum_latest.tar.gz
The next step is to create a MySQL database for Orange Forum. You can use the following commands to create a database:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted. Once you have logged in to the MySQL console, create a database:
CREATE DATABASE orangeforum;
Create a new user and grant database permissions:
CREATE USER 'orangeforumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orangeforum.* TO 'orangeforumuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace password with a strong password.
The next step is to configure Orange Forum. Navigate to the config folder in the extracted Orange Forum package and rename the config.sample.php file to config.php:
cd orange_forum/config/
mv config.sample.php config.php
Open the config.php file using a text editor and update the database details:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_USER', 'orangeforumuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DB_NAME', 'orangeforum');
Replace orangeforumuser and password with the username and password you created in the previous step.
The next step is to upload the extracted Orange Forum package to the Apache server. You can do this by copying the orange_forum folder to the /var/www/html/ directory:
sudo cp -r orange_forum /var/www/html/
The final step is to set the file permissions for the Orange Forum files. You can do this using the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/orange_forum/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/orange_forum/
Once you have completed the above steps, you can access Orange Forum in your web browser by typing your server IP address followed by /orange_forum. For example: http://<your.server.ip>/orange_forum.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Orange Forum on your Elementary OS Latest system. You can now start exploring the features of Orange Forum and create an online community.
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