How to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on CentOS 7
To install FluxBB 1.5.10 on CentOS 7
FluxBB is an open-source forum application released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is free to download and use and will remain so. FluxBB was conceived and designed to be fast and light with less of the " not so essential" features that some of the other forums have whilst not sacrificing essential functionality or usability.
Prerequisites
Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )
Php installation with required following modules
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el7/webtatic-release.rpm yum install php56w php56w-opcache php56w-mysql php56w-curl php56w-xml php56w-mcrypt php56w-gd
Switch to the following directory
[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# cd /home/user1/
Download a FluxBB package using the following URL
[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# wget https://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.10/fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
--2018-04-16 03:07:05-- https://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.10/fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
Resolving fluxbb.org (fluxbb.org)... 217.70.188.20
Connecting to fluxbb.org (fluxbb.org)|217.70.188.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 404359 (395K) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ fluxbb-1.5.10.zip’
100%[============================================================> ] 404,359 334KB/s in 1.2s
2018-04-16 03:07:07 (334 KB/s) - ‘ fluxbb-1.5.10.zip’ saved [404359/404359]
The downloaded package is a zip file, so unzip the file as follows
[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# unzip fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
Archive: fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
5a9a5f401f1711ecb610d5e6a70bf8c0d1e3847a
creating: fluxbb-1.5.10/
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/COPYING
creating: fluxbb-1.5.10/addons/
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/addons/index.html
.
.
creating: fluxbb-1.5.10/style/imports/
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/style/imports/base_admin.css
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/style/imports/index.html
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/style/index.html
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/userlist.php
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/viewforum.php
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/viewtopic.php
Move the extracted package into the following path
[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# mv fluxbb-1.5.10 /var/www/
Switch to the following directory
[root@linuxhelp1 user1]# cd /var/www/
Change the ownership and permission of the file
[root@linuxhelp1 www]# chown -R apache.apache fluxbb-1.5.10
[root@linuxhelp1 www]# chmod -R 775 fluxbb-1.5.10
Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the FluxBB application
[root@linuxhelp1 www]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/fluxbb.conf
Restart the httpd service
[root@linuxhelp1 www]# systemctl restart httpd
Open a browser and type the following URL of http://local IP (or) domain name
Configure the Database detail, Admin user credential, and Site information as follows
After the configuration, you will see the following page as shown below
Homepage of FluxBB
The Login page of FluxBB, log in using Admin user credential
Administration panel of FluxBB forum page
With this, the method to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on CentOS 7 comes to an end.
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