This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install Vanilla Forums on macOS.
Before you begin, ensure that you have the following:
Visit the Vanilla Forums download page and select the latest stable version of the software.
Extract the downloaded archive to a directory that is served by your web server. You can use the Terminal app to do this.
cd /path/to/webserver/directory
unzip /path/to/downloaded/vanilla-forums.zip
Create a new MySQL or MariaDB database and user for Vanilla Forums.
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE vanilla_db;
CREATE USER 'vanilla_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL ON vanilla_db.* TO 'vanilla_user'@'localhost';
Replace vanilla_db, vanilla_user and password with your own values.
Copy the conf/config-defaults.php file to conf/config.php.
cp conf/config-defaults.php conf/config.php
Edit the conf/config.php file with your favorite text editor.
$Configuration['Database']['Name'] = 'vanilla_db';
$Configuration['Database']['User'] = 'vanilla_user';
$Configuration['Database']['Password'] = 'password';
Replace vanilla_db, vanilla_user and password with your own values.
Set the file and directory permissions for Vanilla Forums.
chmod -R 755 /path/to/webserver/directory/vanilla
chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/webserver/directory/vanilla
Replace www-data with the appropriate username for your web server.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/vanilla.
You should be able to access Vanilla Forums and start customizing it according to your needs.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Vanilla Forums on macOS.
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