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How to install phpBB on Ubuntu 16.04

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To install phpBB on Ubuntu 16.04

phpBB is an open source bulletin board forum software that provides a virtual space for discussion among the members of your website. It has a huge variety of features like flat topic structure, sub-forums, forum-specific styles, user groups, group-based permissions, database query and template caching, support for PHP 7, multiple database engines and much more. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of phpBB on Ubuntu 16.04.

Pre-Requirements
LAMP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP 7)
MariaDB (Create database and user. Provide privileges to that user)
PHP modules (apt-get install php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd)

Installation procedure

To proceed with the installation procedure, download the package of phpBB by executing the wget command followed by the download link.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~ # wget https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-3.2.1.zip
--2017-11-09 11:48:25--  https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-3.2.1.zip
Resolving www.phpbb.com (www.phpbb.com)... 140.211.15.244
Connecting to www.phpbb.com (www.phpbb.com)|140.211.15.244|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7767156 (7.4M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ phpBB-3.2.1.zip’ 

phpBB-3.2.1.zip     100%[===================> ]   7.41M   113KB/s    in 34s     

2017-11-09 11:49:07 (221 KB/s) - ‘ phpBB-3.2.1.zip’  saved [7767156/7767156]

Extract the downloaded package by running the unzip command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~ # unzip phpBB-3.2.1.zip &ndash d /var/www/html
Archive:  phpBB-3.2.1.zip
   creating: phpBB3/
   creating: phpBB3/language/
   creating: phpBB3/language/en/
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/viewforum.php  
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/memberlist.php  
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/install.php  
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/posting.php  
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/captcha_recaptcha.php  
  inflating: phpBB3/language/en/viewtopic.php  
.
.
inflating: /var/www/html/phpBB3/images/upload_icons/zip.gif  
  inflating: /var/www/html/phpBB3/images/upload_icons/mid.gif  
  inflating: /var/www/html/phpBB3/images/index.htm  
  inflating: /var/www/html/phpBB3/images/spacer.gif

Change the ownership and permission of file in HTML location by running the wget command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/
root@linuxhelpubnt:~# chmod 775 -R /var/www/html/

Enable the module rewrite by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# a2enmod rewrite

Create the virtual host by creating new phpbb.conf file and enter the following content in the file. Save and exit the file.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpbb.conf

< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerAdmin admin@phpbb.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/phpBB3/
ServerName phpbb.com
ServerAlias www.phpbb.com
< Directory /var/www/html/phpBB3/> 
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/phpbb.com-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/phpbb.com-access_log common
< /VirtualHost>

Provide entry in hosts file. Save and exit the file.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# nano /etc/hosts
< machine ip >    domain_name

Enable the newly created phpbb.conf file.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# a2ensite phpbb.conf 
Enabling site phpbb.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
   service apache2 reload

Restart the Apache service.

root@linuxhelpubnt:~# systemctl  restart  apache2.service

Switch over to the browser and enter the URL as http://phpbb.com/install. The installation process of phpBB appears on the screen. Click Install option to start the installation process.
installation procedure

Enter the admin details and click Submit option.

Enter the required database details and click Submit option.

Enter the server configuration details and click Submit option.

Enter the E-mail configuration details and click Submit option.
email configuration

Finally enter the site details and click Submit option.
site detials

The installation is in progress and may take up some time.
installing process

The installation is now complete and now click the Take me to the ACP option to navigate to administrator panel.
installation complete

The admin page of phpBB is shown as below.

This concludes the installation procedure of phpBB on Ubuntu 16.04.

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what are the system requirements ?

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I keep getting Mail sending errors when I (or my users) post/send PM's/etc.how to solve this issue ?

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