phpBB is an open-source bulletin board software written in PHP. It allows users to create and manage their own online community forums. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install phpBB on Linux Mint Latest.
Before starting the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Firstly, visit the official phpBB website, https://www.phpbb.com/, and download the latest version of phpBB as a .zip file.
After downloading, extract the downloaded file to the Apache document root directory /var/www/ using the following command:
sudo unzip phpBB*.zip -d /var/www/
Change the ownership of the extracted folder to the Apache user and assign it appropriate file permissions using the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/phpBB3
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/phpBB3
Login to MySQL database with root privileges:
mysql -u root -p
Create a database for phpBB and grant privileges to the new database user:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE phpBB_db;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on phpBB_db.* TO 'phpBB_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace phpBB_db, phpBB_user, and password with your own names and passwords.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/phpBB3/ or http://<your-server-IP>/phpBB3/. Select Install to start the installation process.
Next.Next.Next.Proceed to next step./install/ folder from the phpBB directory:sudo rm -rf /var/www/phpBB3/install/
You can now visit the admin panel by logging in with your admin username and password at http://localhost/phpBB3/adimin, or http://<your-server-IP>/phpBB3/admin, and start managing your phpBB forum.
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