Phpbb2HowTo
Installing PHPBB2 for Ubuntu - Part 1
1. Open up a terminal window. 2. Install the following if not already installed:
sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install php5-mysql sudo apt-get install mysql-server
3. During the mail server installation, select the following options if your not sure what else to use: {{{Internet Site localhost.localdomain (for the purposes of this install of cacti, i just left this as default)}}}
4. Install the MYSQL database: (ignore the mysql instructions to change your password; proceed to step 5.)
mysql_install_db
5. Install Phpbb2:
apt-get install phpbb2
Note: If you recieve password errors with steps 6 or 7 below, I found the easiest way around it is to just set up the database in PhpMyadmin which I have instructions for lower down the page
6. Setup the MySQL database:
sudo mysqladmin -u root password db_user_password
7. Type sudo mysql to enter into MySQL management.
8. At the mysql> prompt, type:
create phpbb2; use phpbb2; GRANT ALL ON phpbb2.* TO phpbb2@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "phpbb2_passwd";
9. Type:
exit
10. Back at shell type:
sudo zcat /usr/share/doc/phpbb2/schemas/mysql_schema.sql.gz| mysql -u phpbb2 -p phpbb2 sudo zcat /usr/share/doc/phpbb2/schemas/mysql_basic.sql.gz| mysql -u phpbb2 -p phpbb2 sudo cp /usr/share/doc/phpbb2/examples/config.php /etc/phpbb2
11. Now we need to edit the phpbb2 config file:
sudo vi /etc/phpbb2/config.php
12. By default, the password field is blank so you should only really need to add a password, just use the same one as above, whatever you used for 'phpbb2_passwd'.
$dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbname = 'phpbb2'; $dbuser = 'phpbb2'; $dbpasswd = 'phpbb2_password';
13. Type in the following commands:
cd /etc/apache2/conf.d/ sudo ln -s /etc/phpbb2/apache.conf phpbb2.conf cd /var/www sudo rm -rf phpbb2 sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Installing PHPBB2 for Ubuntu - Setting up the database via PhpMyadmin
Note: You only really need to bother with this option if you're getting errors in steps 6 & 7 of Part 1 above, or if you prefer using MyPhpadmin over command line
1. Assuming you have phpmyadmin installed, open a web browser and enter the address http://localhost/phpmyadmin
2. Log in, you should be able to just do this with the root user and pass.
3. Under the MySQL heading, there is a subheading of Create new database, just type in phpbb2 and hit the Create button
4. Now you can select phpbb2 from the dropdown menu on this side
5. Once selected, click the SQL tab at the top of the page
6. Type the following command in the Run SQL Query/Queries on database phpbb2:
GRANT ALL ON phpbb2.* TO phpbb2@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "phpbb2_passwd";
7. Click the Go button
8. Now continue on from step 10 onwards in Part 1 above.
Installing PHPBB2 for Ubuntu - Part 2
Everything should now be installed and ready to go.
1. Launch your web browser and type in:
http://localhost/phpbb
With any luck, you should be displayed with a PHPBB2 webpage saying that the forum is disabled 2. Click Log in and use the default username and password of:
username = admin password = admin
3. Once logged in, you should see a small link at the bottom of the page saying GotoAdministrationPanel
4. Click on that link and you should be presented with a list of Administration options, Select the link configuration which will be located under the sub heading General Admin down the lefthand side of the page
5. Set the option Disable Forum to No and click Submit at the bottom of the page
Note: Also, don't forget to change your admin password as well.