Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free software package designed to help communities and online forums connect, communicate and collaborate. Installing SMF on your Manjaro system is easy and straightforward. Follow the steps below to get started.
Before you start installing SMF on Manjaro, you need to make sure that you have the following packages installed:
The first step is to download SMF package from https://www.simplemachines.org. You can either download the full package or the upgrade package if you already have an older version of SMF installed.
After downloading SMF package, extract it to the webroot directory of your web server. For example, if you are using Apache, you can extract the package to /var/www/html/ directory.
sudo tar -xvf smf_package.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Create a new database for SMF to use. You can use either MySQL or MariaDB.
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE smf_db;
CREATE USER 'smf_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON smf_db.* TO 'smf_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Next, configure SMF by visiting the URL where you extracted the SMF package. For example, http://localhost/smf/. Follow the prompts to set up your forum.
Once you have configured SMF, you are ready to use it. Login with your administrator account to your forum and start customizing.
You have successfully installed Simple Machines Forum on Manjaro. Enjoy using the forum software!
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