This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing phpBB on a NetBSD system.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure your NetBSD system meets the following requirements:
First, download the latest version of phpBB from the official website. Make sure to download the .tar.bz2 file.
$ wget https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.3/3.3.5/phpBB-3.3.5.tar.bz2
Once downloaded, extract the archive using the following command:
$ tar xjf phpBB-3.3.5.tar.bz2
This will create a new directory called phpBB3.
Next, you need to configure your web server to serve phpBB. Here's an example configuration for Apache:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/phpbb3
<Directory /path/to/phpbb3>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Make sure to replace example.com and /path/to/phpbb3 with your actual domain name and phpBB directory path, respectively.
Before continuing with the installation process, you'll need to make sure that the cache and files directories are writable by the web server user.
$ chown -R www:www /path/to/phpbb3/cache /path/to/phpbb3/files
$ chmod -R 755 /path/to/phpbb3/cache /path/to/phpbb3/files
Finally, it's time to run the installation script. Open your web browser and navigate to your phpBB installation URL, for example: http://example.com/install/index.php.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. You'll need to provide your database details, admin account information, and some other configuration options.
Once the installation is complete, make sure to delete the install/ directory for security reasons.
That's it! You now have phpBB installed on your NetBSD system.
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