Orange Forum is a free and open-source forum software that can be used to create and manage online community discussion forums. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Orange Forum on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites on your system:
First, update your EndeavourOS system to ensure that all the available packages are up-to-date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Orange Forum requires some dependencies to be installed on your system before you can install it. You can install them by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S nginx postgresql git
Orange Forum uses PostgreSQL as its database backend. So, you need to install it and create a new PostgreSQL database user and database. You can do this by running the following commands:
sudo pacman -S postgresql
sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql.service
sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE USER orangeforum WITH PASSWORD 'your-password';
CREATE DATABASE orangeforum;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE orangeforum TO orangeforum;
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Now, you need to clone the Orange Forum repository to your system by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/goodoldweb/orange.git
After cloning the repository, change into the Orange Forum directory and run the installer script:
cd orange
bash install.sh
This will start the installation process and will prompt you to enter some configuration options, such as the database name, username, password, and admin email address.
Next, you need to configure Nginx to serve Orange Forum. Create a new file /etc/nginx/conf.d/orangeforum.conf with the following content:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourforum.com;
root /var/www/orange;
index index.php index.html;
access_log /var/log/nginx/orangeforum.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/orangeforum.error.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Replace yourforum.com with your own domain or IP address.
Restart Nginx to apply the changes:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Finally, navigate to your Orange Forum installation by entering your server's IP address or domain name in your web browser's address bar, followed by /install:
http://yourforum.com/install
Follow the prompts to complete the installation process.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Orange Forum on EndeavourOS Latest.
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