Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Installation of PHPBB from Source


Millions of people use phpBB on a daily basis, making it the most widely used open source bulletin board system in the world. Whether you want to stay in touch with a small group of friends or are looking to set up a large multi-category board for a corporate website, phpBB has the features you need built-in. Newer users will appreciate phpBB's extensive administration panel, which allows the customisation of even the most intricate features without having to edit code directly while advanced users will value the ease with which phpBB can be integrated into existing systems.

Installation

1) Downloaded phpbb application from website.
2) Extracted the file and copied it to the location /home/www/www/
3) Created database named "phpbb".
>create database phpbb;
Granted permission to the database for the user root.
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phpbb.* TO "phpbbuser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "redhat";
Flushed privilege
>flush privileges;
4) Changed permission of the wordpress file on that location
chown -R www:www /home/www/www/*
5)Restart apache and enter the open browser and enter the following address
http:test007.server.com/phpbb

Follow the instructions during installation and phbb will be installed.  

No comments:

Post a Comment