Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Installation Of SMF from Source


SMF is all that in one package, giving you an easy to use forum with many powerful features for you as well as your users. SMF is an open-source project made by volunteers from across the world.SMF features a powerful Package Manager, allowing you to quickly apply any of the hundreds of modifications in our database, as well as a variety of custom themes that change the way your site looks.

Installation

1) Downloaded smf application from website.
2) Extracted the file and copied it to the location /home/www/www/
3) Created database named "smf"
>create database smf;
Granted permission to the database for the user smfuser
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON smf.* TO "smfuser"@"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
6) http://test007.server.com/smf

Follow the instructions during installation and smf will be installed.  




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