How to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Linuxmint 18.03

To install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Linuxmint 18.03

FluxBB is a free and open source forum application released under the GNU General Public Licence. it is written in php and uses MySQL database. FluxBB is designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, and php7.2)
Install 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 php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mcrypt php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-gd php7.2-mbstring php7.2  php7.2-common  php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap  php7.2-xml php7.2-intl 
php7.2-cli  php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-readline php7.2-imap php7.2-tidy php7.2-recode php7.2-sq php7.2-intl

Installation

Download a fluxbb package using the wget command

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.10/fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
--2018-06-12 10:53:56--  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’ 
fluxbb-1.5.10.zip        100%[=================================> ] 394.88K   316KB/s    in 1.2s    
2018-06-12 10:53:59 (316 KB/s) - ‘ fluxbb-1.5.10.zip’  saved [404359/404359]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so unzip the package

linuxhelp ~ # 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  
  inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/admin_bans.php  
  inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/admin_categories.php  
  inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/admin_censoring.php  
  inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/admin_forums.php  
.
.
.
inflating: fluxbb-1.5.10/style/Technetium/light-shade.png  
   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

Rename the extracted directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
fluxbb-1.5.10  fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
linuxhelp ~ # mv fluxbb-1.5.10 fluxbb

Change the ownership and permission for fluxbb directory

linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data fluxbb
linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 fluxbb

Move the fluxbb directory into the /html location

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

Create a new virtualhost configuration for accessing the fluxbb application

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

Enable the site access

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

Make an entry to the host file as follows

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
< your ip address>      < your domain name> 

Restart the apache2 service

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

Configure the Database detail, admin user account, setup and Site information

Once the installation is done you will see the following page.

Log in using the following options shown below

Administration panel of FluxBB

With this, the method to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Linuxmint 18.03 comes to an end.