How to Install MyBB CMS on CentOS 7.5

Installation of MyBB CMS on CentOS 7.5

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. This tutorial covers the installation of MyBB CMS on Centos 7.5

Requirements for MyBB cms :

Apache

MariaDB

PHP and its modules

(php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-mcrypt)

Installation procedure

Check the Centos version by using the following command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-5.1804.el7.centos.x86_64

Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 10
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database mybb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> create user 'mybbuser'@localhost identified by '123456';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on mybb.* to 'mybbuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> Ctrl-C -- exit!
Aborted

Once the database configuration is done, download the MyBB CMS installation package by using the wget command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://resources.mybb.com/downloads/mybb_1820.zip
--2019-05-14 16:28:18--  https://resources.mybb.com/downloads/mybb_1820.zip
Resolving resources.mybb.com (resources.mybb.com)... 104.25.196.102, 104.25.195.102, 2606:4700:20::6819:c366, ...
Connecting to resources.mybb.com (resources.mybb.com)|104.25.196.102|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2251084 (2.1M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘mybb_1820.zip.1’
100%[===========================================================>] 2,251,084    855KB/s   in 2.6s   
2019-05-14 16:28:22 (855 KB/s) - ‘mybb_1820.zip.1’ saved [2251084/2251084]

Once the download is completed extract the downloaded package using unzip command.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip mybb_1820.zip.1
Archive:  mybb_1820.zip.1
   creating: Documentation/
  inflating: Documentation/credits.html  
   creating: Documentation/images/
  inflating: Documentation/images/logo.png  
 extracting: Documentation/images/notice_credits.png  
 extracting: Documentation/images/notice_install.png  
 extracting: Documentation/images/notice_license.png  
.
.
.        
   creating: Upload/uploads/
   creating: Upload/uploads/avatars/
  inflating: Upload/uploads/avatars/index.html  
  inflating: Upload/uploads/index.html  
  inflating: Upload/usercp.php       
  inflating: Upload/warnings.php     
  inflating: Upload/xmlhttp.php      

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv Upload /var/www/mybb

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/mybb

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 755 /var/www/mybb

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/mybb.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
        Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        Documentroot /var/www/mybb
<directory /var/www/mybb>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</Virtualhost>

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd