How To install Question2Answer V-1.8.0 on linuxmint-18.03

Extract the package using the following command

linuxhelp ~ # unzip question2answer-1.8.0.zip 
Archive:  question2answer-1.8.0.zip
   creating: question2answer-1.8.0/
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/.htaccess  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/CHANGELOG.html  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/CONTRIBUTING.md  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/index.php  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/LICENSE.html  
   creating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-cache/
 extracting: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-cache/.htaccess  
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   creating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/js/
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/js/snow-core.js  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/metadata.json  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-data-styles-rtl.css  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-data-styles.css  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/qa-theme/SnowFlat/qa-theme.php  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/README.html  
  inflating: question2answer-1.8.0/README.md  
 extracting: question2answer-1.8.0/VERSION.txt

Rename the extracted directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
question2answer-1.8.0  question2answer-1.8.0.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv question2answer-1.8.0 q2a

Move the file to the HTML location

linuxhelp ~ # mv q2a/ /var/www/html/

And then switch to the directory as follows

linuxhelp ~ # cd /var/www/html/
linuxhelp html # ls
index.html  q2a

Next, change ownership and permission of the q2a directory

linuxhelp html # chown -R www-data:www-data q2a/
linuxhelp html # chmod -R 775 q2a/

And then Rename qa-config-example.php to qa-config.php

linuxhelp html # cd q2a/
linuxhelp q2a # ls
CHANGELOG.html   LICENSE.html           qa-content           qa-lang    qa-tests     README.md
CONTRIBUTING.md  qa-cache               qa-external-example  qa-plugin  qa-theme     VERSION.txt
index.php        qa-config-example.php  qa-include           qa-src     README.html
linuxhelp q2a # mv qa-config-example.php qa-config.php
Open qa-config.php in your text editor of choice and insert the MySQL details:
linuxhelp q2a # vim qa-config.php
[&hellip ]
define(' QA_MYSQL_HOSTNAME' , ' 127.0.0.1' ) 
define(' QA_MYSQL_USERNAME' , ' q2auser' ) 
define(' QA_MYSQL_PASSWORD' , ' 123' ) 
define(' QA_MYSQL_DATABASE' , ' q2a' ) 
[&hellip ]

Next, create the virtual host for Question2answer

linuxhelp q2a # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim q2a.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/q2a/
< Directory /var/www/html/q2a/> 
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

We have to enable the q2a.conf file

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite q2a.conf
Enabling site q2a.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run
service apache2 reload

Now, Make an entry to the host file

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>    < give your localip> 

Restart the apache

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

Next, proceed with the installation as follows. setup the database and also the user management configuration

After the configuration, you will see the following screen where you have to click on admin center to access the admin dashboard.