Cloud Lesson 08 phpBB Forum

Cloud Lesson 08 - Install You Own Web Forum!
Login to your cloud server:
ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@IPADDR

Install a MySQL Server
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-utilities mysql-common

Install PHP
apt-get install --install-recommends -y php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-curl php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip

Install Modules for Apache (MySQL, PHP, SSL)
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php php-mysql unzip

Install phpBB3:
https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/

cd /var/www/
mv html html.original
wget https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.3/3.3.0/phpBB-3.3.0.zip
unzip phpBB-3.3.0.zip
mv phpBB3 html
cd html
chmod 666 config.php
mysql
create database phpbb3;
grant all privileges on phpbb3.* to sql_user@localhost identified by 'password';
exit;

Configure phpBB3
Visit your public DNS Name and choose "install"

After Installation:
sudo -s
cd /var/www/html
chmod 644 config.php
mv install /var/www/

Share it with your Friends and Family!!!

Create a NEW Admin User:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2332661
1) sudo -s
2) mysql
3) use phpbb3;
4) INSERT INTO phpbb_users (user_type, group_id, username, username_clean, user_regdate, user_password, user_email, user_lang, user_style, user_rank, user_colour, user_posts, user_permissions, user_ip, user_birthday, user_lastpage, user_last_confirm_key, user_post_sortby_type, user_post_sortby_dir, user_topic_sortby_type, user_topic_sortby_dir, user_avatar, user_sig, user_sig_bbcode_uid, user_jabber, user_actkey, user_newpasswd) VALUES (3, 5, 'Admin-User', 'admin-password', 0, '21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3', '[email protected]', 'en', 1, 1, 'AA0000', 1, '', '', '', '', '', 't', 'a', 't', 'd', '', '', '', '', '', '');




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