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‎Configure MySQL

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‎Final Steps

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‎Final Steps

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‎Navigate to the installation webpage

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 login to db
   ~$ mysql -u root -p
-Create mysql wiki user
+Create mysql phpBB user
   ~$ mysql> CREATE USER 'phpBB'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
   ~$ mysql> exit

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   ~$ sudo chmod 000 install_backup/
 Change the permissions for config.php, writing to it on a global level is no longer needed
-  ~$ sudo chmod 640 /var/www/yoursite.com/config.php
+  ~$ sudo chmod 644 /var/www/yoursite.com/config.php
 And once again, another restart of apache2

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   ~$ sudo chmod 000 install_backup/
 Change the permissions for config.php, writing to it on a global level is no longer needed
-  ~$ sudo chmod 640 ./config.php
+  ~$ sudo chmod 640 /var/www/yoursite.com/config.php
 And once again, another restart of apache2

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 Just to make sure someone couldn't access it, I also removed permissions to the backup
   ~$ sudo chmod 000 install_backup/
 And once again, another restart of apache2
    ~$ sudo service apache2 restart

← Older revision		Revision as of 11:15, 28 September 2014
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	* Restarting web server apache2		* Restarting web server apache2
	...done.		...done.
		+	<br>
		+	<br>
		+	Installation should now be complete and you can move on to customizing your forums!

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	#on the next page you should get the following notification "The database tables used by phpBB 3.0 have been created and populated with some initial data. Proceed to the next screen to finish installing phpBB."		#on the next page you should get the following notification "The database tables used by phpBB 3.0 have been created and populated with some initial data. Proceed to the next screen to finish installing phpBB."
	#click "Proceed to next step" one last time you should be greeted with the Final Stage page indicating that the phpBB forums have been setup.		#click "Proceed to next step" one last time you should be greeted with the Final Stage page indicating that the phpBB forums have been setup.
		+
		+	==Final Steps==
		+	Final steps are pretty easy.<br>
		+	Remove/move/rename the install directory. I dont like to lose copies of stuff so I created a new directory and moved the contents to it
		+	~$ sudo mkdir install_backup
		+	~$ sudo cp -r ./install/* ./install_backup/
		+	~$ sudo rm -rf ./install/
		+	Just to make sure someone couldn't access it, I also removed permissions to the backup
		+	~$ sudo chmod 000 install_backup/
		+	And once again, another restart of apache2
		+	~$ sudo service apache2 restart
		+	* Restarting web server apache2
		+	...done.

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 #configure the database settings that you took note of earlier and click on "Proceed to next step"
 #from here phpBB will attempt to connect to the database.  If successful, you'll see a "Successful Connection" displayed and be able to click "Proceed to next step"
-#fill out all of the administrator user credentials, like username, password, email, etc.
+#fill out all of the administrator user credentials, like username, password, email, etc. and click "Proceed to next step"

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 Before you being with the configuration, make sure you have the following information (which you should if you followed the steps above)
 *Database Type : mysql
-*Database server hostname: yoursite.com
+*Database server hostname: localhost (if on the same host) OR hostname of the database server (if on another machine)
 *Database name: phpBB
 *Datebase username & password: phpBB:phpBBuserpassword
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 #click the Install tab
 #click Proceed to next step
+#now you'll land on the Requirements page, take a good look and make sure everything shows as ok.  You should only have (1) Database type listed as green, the rest will be red and thats ok.  Everything else though should be in green, including the files & directories that we went over earlier.

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   /var/www/yoursite.com/files
   /var/www/yoursite.com/images/avatars/upload/
-  ~/forums$ sudo chmod 766 config.php cache files store images/avatars/upload/
+  ~/forums$ sudo chmod 777 config.php cache files store images/avatars/upload/
 And for good measure, restart apache2
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 *Datebase username & password: phpBB:phpBBuserpassword
 On the website, you simply have to do the following steps:
-*click the Install tab
+#click the Install tab
+#click Proceed to next step