Orange Forum is a discussion forum software that is designed to be fast and easy to use. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install Orange Forum on Kali Linux Latest.
Before we begin, you need to ensure that you have the following:
To install Orange Forum on Kali Linux, we need to first set up a web server. We will be using Apache web server and PHP as our server-side scripting language.
To install Apache, run the following command on the terminal:
sudo apt-get install apache2
Once Apache is installed, you can install PHP by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php
Orange Forum requires a MySQL database to store user data and forum discussions. To install MySQL, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
During the installation process, you will be prompted to set a root password for the MySQL database.
Now that we have our web server and database set up, we can download and install Orange Forum.
First, download the latest version of Orange Forum from https://www.goodoldweb.com/download. Extract the files to a directory of your choice.
Next, move the extracted files to the web server's root directory. This can be done by running the following command:
sudo mv /path/to/orange-forum /var/www/html/
Before we can start using Orange Forum, we need to configure it to use our MySQL database.
Navigate to the Orange Forum directory and open the config.php file with your favorite text editor.
cd /var/www/html/orange-forum
sudo nano config.php
In the config.php file, update the following lines with your MySQL database details:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASS', 'YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE');
define('DB_NAME', 'orange_forum');
To ensure that the web server can access the Orange Forum files and directories, we need to set the correct permissions.
Run the following command to set the permissions:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/orange-forum/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/orange-forum/
Now that we have completed the installation and configuration process, you can access Orange Forum by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost/orange-forum.
Login to the forum with the default username and password: admin/admin.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Orange Forum on Kali Linux Latest. You now have a fully functioning discussion forum, ready to be customized and used to engage with your community.
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