How to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Ubuntu 18.04
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

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

Installation

Download a Fluxbb package using this following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.10/fluxbb-1.5.10.zip
--2018-06-10 22:56:05--  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’ 

fluxbb-1.5.10.zip       100%[==============================> ] 394.88K  96.0KB/s    in 4.1s    

2018-06-10 22:56:11 (96.0 KB/s) - ‘ fluxbb-1.5.10.zip’  saved [404359/404359]

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

root@linuxhelp1:~# 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 file into the following path

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv fluxbb-1.5.10 /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 fluxbb-1.5.10
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 fluxbb-1.5.10

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Processwire CMS application

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/fluxbb.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/fluxbb-1.5.10/

< Directory /var/www/fluxbb-1.5.10/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 

< /VirtualHost> 

Enable the site access

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

Disable the default access

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

Enable the rewrite module

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

Then we need to restart the apache2 service

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

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 completed you will see the following screen.

Homepage of FluxBB

Access the Login page of FluxBB from here.

Admin page of Fluxbb

With this, the method to install FluxBB 1.5.10 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.