From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 05:40:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E782710656AF for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEAB8FC13 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5E5e6sw010637 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:40:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20080614054000.GD14869@thought.org> References: <20080613225024.GA5175@thought.org> <20080614044723.GB14869@thought.org> <20080614045655.GC2482@shepherd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080614045655.GC2482@shepherd> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Subject: Re: How do I install pphpBB2? [WAS: Re: okay, it's time to ask....] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:40:08 -0000 On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:56:56AM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > After a long time, I've got phpbb configured into mysql. > > I've downloaded phpBB2 and installed it. My notes from > > 2003 fail here; it may be because my apache-2 isn't configured. > > What notes? [ ... ] Appended are my original notes. > > -- > Sahil Tandon -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org STAGE 1 /* * mysql instruuctions */ STAGE 2 -- APACHE # cd /usr/ports/www/apache13/ && make install clean ***downloads and installs apache*** STAGE 3 -- MOD_PHP4 # cd /usr/ports/lang/php4/ && make install clean list of things i enable for php: GD2 bzip2 cracklib mcrypt mhash pdflib IMAP GDBM OpenSSL SNMP XML FTP CURL gettext iconv recode pspell BCMath mcve sockets zlib and MySQL should already be selected, but DEFINITELY select them if they are not. One probably doesn't need any of the above options to run phpBB... I just like this set in case I use php for other things in the future. because we enabled snmp it stops to asks some questions while compiling those libraries. i just took the defaults without deviation... ***downloads and installs mod_php4*** STAGE 4 -- PHPBB # cd /usr/ports/www/phpbb/ && make install # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start apache# open browser now and point to "http://localhost/phpBB2/" fill in the following values according to the db we set up earlier: Database Server Hostname / DSN: localhost Your Database Name: phpbb Database Username: phpbb_user Database Password: XXXXXXXXX (starred out, of course) // was "bbuser" Admin Email Address: my@real.addreSS Domain Name: hostname.real.address (if you do not have a valid dns name, it is very important that you use your IP address here instead of a fake DNS entry. phpBB creates it's page links dynamically with the value you enter here. Server Port: 80 Script path: /phpBB2/ Administrator Username: Administrator Administrator Password: adminpass (starred out again...) Administrator Password [ Confirm ]: adminpass click "Submit" and on the next page click "Finish" then back to the console... # cd /usr/local/www/data/phpBB2/ # rm -rf install/ the web install says to make sure to remove /install and /contrib, but i didn't find any /contrib directory in the version of phpbb that installed? guess we'll ignore that...