How to install MyBB CMS 1.8.15 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install MyBB CMS on Ubuntu 18.04

MyBB is an open source, multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a database. It stores all of its content on text files. It also contains features like support of various plugins, widget support, customizable themes.

Prerequisites

To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
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

Download a MyBB package using the following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://resources.mybb.com/downloads/mybb_1815.zip
--2018-06-22 20:37:56--  https://resources.mybb.com/downloads/mybb_1815.zip
Resolving resources.mybb.com (resources.mybb.com)... 104.25.195.102, 104.25.196.102, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:c466, ...
Connecting to resources.mybb.com (resources.mybb.com)|104.25.195.102|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2248609 (2.1M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ mybb_1815.zip’ 
mybb_1815.zip           100%[==============================> ]   2.14M   323KB/s    in 6.8s    
2018-06-22 20:38:05 (325 KB/s) - ‘ mybb_1815.zip’  saved [2248609/2248609]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the package now

root@linuxhelp1:~# unzip mybb_1815.zip -d mybb
Archive:  mybb_1815.zip
   creating: mybb/Documentation/
  inflating: mybb/Documentation/credits.html  
   creating: mybb/Documentation/images/
  inflating: mybb/Documentation/images/logo.png  
 extracting: mybb/Documentation/images/notice_credits.png  
 extracting: mybb/Documentation/images/notice_install.png
.
.
   creating: mybb/Upload/uploads/
   creating: mybb/Upload/uploads/avatars/
  inflating: mybb/Upload/uploads/avatars/index.html  
  inflating: mybb/Upload/uploads/index.html  
  inflating: mybb/Upload/usercp.php  
  inflating: mybb/Upload/usercp2.php  
  inflating: mybb/Upload/warnings.php  
  inflating: mybb/Upload/xmlhttp.php

Move the extracted file into the following path

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv mybb /var/www/

Switch to the following directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/

Change the ownership and permission of the file

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data mybb
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 mybb

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the MyBB application

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/mybb.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mybb/Upload/
< Directory /var/www/mybb/Upload/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite mybb.conf
Enabling site mybb.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2