Installing phpBB Forum/Bulletin Board on Debian

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0273.html

   01. Log into the Debian device    02. Run the following commands in a terminal:          # update repositories and install any available software updates          sudo apt update          sudo apt upgrade -y          # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL          sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client curl          # install PHP components          sudo apt install php php-mysql php-cli php-json php-opcache php-gd php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip          # configure the MySQL database          sudo su          mysql_secure_installation    03. Press Enter to login as root    04. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm    05. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users    06. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely    07. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database    08. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables    09. Run the following command to login into MySQL:          mysql -u root -p    10. Authenticate with the root password set earlier    11. Run the following commands to create the phpbb database and database user          CREATE DATABASE phpbb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;          GRANT ALL ON phpbb.* TO 'phpbb_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '!!phpBB##';          FLUSH PRIVILEGES;          EXIT;          exit    12. Continue with the following commands to download and extract phpBB in the Apache webroot          # download latest phpbb version          sudo wget -O phpbb.tar.gz https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.3/3.3.2/phpBB-3.3.2.tar.bz2          # extract phpbb.tar.gz          sudo tar xvf phpbb.tar.gz --directory /var/www          # rename phpbb folder          sudo mv /var/www/phpBB* /var/www/phpbb          # create a new phpbb.conf file to configure the site          sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpbb.conf    13. Paste the following configuration into phpbb.conf          Alias /phpbb "/var/www/phpbb/"          ≪Directory /var/www/phpbb/≫              AllowOverride All          ≪/Directory≫    14. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to phpbb.conf    15. Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:          # enable the phpbb site and required PHP modules          sudo a2ensite phpbb          sudo a2enmod rewrite          # set the owner of the new phpbb directory to www-data          sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/phpbb          # restart apache2 service          sudo systemctl restart apache2    16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb    17. The phpBB introduction screen should be displayed    18. Click the Install tab    19. Click the Install button    20. Input an administrator username, email address and password ≫ Click Submit    21. Enter the database hostname, username, password and database name ≫ Click Submit    22. Click the Submit button on the Server configuration page    23. Click the Submit button on the E-mail configuration page    24. Enter a title and short description on the Bulletin board configuration page ≫ Click Submit    25. When the installation completes run the following command in terminal to delete the /install directory sudo rm /var/www/phpbb/install -r    26. In a web browser, navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb    27. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted forum with phpBB  

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