User:Paul/sandbox/Install Phorum

The Phorum project is among the oldest PHP-based forum projects. It offers a very simple and straightforward interface without any bling.

Create Phorum database and database user

Create a Phroum database and database user:

username@servername:~$ sudo mysql -uroot -p
MariaDB [(none)]> create database databasename;
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all databasename.* to 'databasenameusername'@'localhost' identified by 'databasenameusernamepassword';
MariaDB [(none)]> exit

Install Phorum

Download the tarball from the main site:

username@servername:~$ wget https://www.phorum.org/downloads/phorum-5.2.23.tar.gz

If wget reports that the site certificate is bad, use --no-check-certificates

username@servername:~$ wget --no-check-certificate https://www.phorum.org/downloads/phorum-5.2.23.tar.gz

Move include/db/config.php.sample to include/db/config.php

username@servername:~$ 
username@servername:~$ 
username@servername:~$ 
username@servername:~$ 
username@servername:~$