How to install FUDforum on Ubuntu-18.04

To install FUDforum on Ubuntu-18.04
FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) is a free and open source web discussion forum. FUDforum combines an extensive feature set while maintaining the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of FUDforum on Ubuntu-18.04.

Prerequisites
Install LAMP (Apache, MariaDB, php7.0)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user)

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common
php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl php7.0-pspell

Installation

Download a FUDforum package using the wget command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fudforum/FUDforum_3.0.9.zip
--2018-07-17 02:07:29--  https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fudforum/FUDforum_3.0.9.zip
Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)... 202.153.32.19
Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)|202.153.32.19|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3076794 (2.9M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘;FUDforum_3.0.9.zip’;

FUDforum_3.0.9.zip      100%[============================>]   2.93M  1.11MB/s    in 2.6s    

2018-07-17 02:07:32 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘;FUDforum_3.0.9.zip’; saved [3076794/3076794]

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip FUDforum_3.0.9.zip 
Archive:  FUDforum_3.0.9.zip
   creating: fudforum/
  inflating: fudforum/fudforum_archive  
  inflating: fudforum/README         
  inflating: fudforum/COPYING        
  inflating: fudforum/uninstall.php  
  inflating: fudforum/install.php    
  inflating: fudforum/upgrade.php  

Change ownership and permission of the as fudforum follows

root@linuxhelp:~# ls
fudforum  FUDforum_3.0.9.zip
root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data:www-data fudforum/
root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 775 fudforum/

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv fudforum/ /var/www/html/

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the FUDforums.

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
root@linuxhelp:/etc/apache2/sites-available# vim forum.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/fudforum/
<Directory /var/www/html/fudforum/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
</virtualHost>

Enable site access.

root@linuxhelp:/etc/apache2/sites-available# a2ensite forum.conf 
Enabling site forum.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Entry to the host file.

root@linuxhelp:/etc/apache2/sites-available# vim /etc/hosts
<Give your ip>   <Give your domain name>

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect.

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name

The installer window appears on the screen and clicks start installer to the next page.

The next page of the system file and directory path.

Next is the Database Setup. Enter all the database details such as database host, name, and password. Submit Database Login option.

Give cookie domain name.

Forum theme setting.

Admin user setting, so fill the admin details.

Installation is completed. Then click on finished.

Login page of FUDforums.

The dashboard of FUDforums admin panel is shown below.

With this, the method to install FUDforums on Ubuntu-18.04 comes to an end.