Tuesday, June 15, 2010

How to install PHPBB/forum on SME server

phpBB 2.0.22 for SMEserver 7.x is THE internet forum. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community. For more information see http://www.phpbb.com/.
Download

You can download this package at smeserver-phpbb . If you would like to save it directly on your SME Server, you should give this command at a linux-prompt

Installation and Uninstall

For installation just hit the following command
wget http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/RPMS/smeserver-phpbb-2.0.22-2.el4.sme.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-phpbb

For uninstall just hit the following command
yum remove smeserver-phpbb

You can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot.
Use

phpBB supports multiple languages. By default English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Sweden languages are available. You can find phpbb in the /opt/phpBB2 directory. For using phpbb start your browser with the URL http://servername/forum and logon with the user admin + password admin .

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