PhpBB/Installation

Installation done on a VM running Ubuntu 14.04LTS

Download required pacakages

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install apache2 mysql-server mysql-client php5 php5-mysql php5-gd imagemagick

If you're going to install MediaWiki aswell, then add an extra pacakge

~$ sudo apt-get install -y  libapache2-mod-php5

Configure MySQL

login to db

~$ mysql -u root -p

Create mysql wiki user

~$ mysql> CREATE USER 'phpBB'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
~$ mysql> exit

login as new user to verify account works

~$ mysql -u phpBB -p
~$ mysql> exit

create DB

~$ mysql -u root -p
~$ mysql> CREATE DATABASE phpBB;

verify DB creation

~$ mysql> SHOW DATABASES;

assign rights to wiki user for new database created

~$ mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON phpBB.* TO 'phpBB'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'phpuserpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;
~$ mysql> exit

verify permissions have been granted

~$ mysql -u phpBB -p
~$ mysql> SHOW GRANTS;
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for phpBB@localhost                                                                                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'phpBB'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `phpBB`.* TO 'phpBB'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                                   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Download phpBB

download the latest version (at the time of this writing was 3.0.12)

~$ wget https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-3.0.12.zip
--2014-09-28 04:51:36--  https://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-3.0.12.zip
Resolving www.phpbb.com (www.phpbb.com)... 140.211.15.9
Connecting to www.phpbb.com (www.phpbb.com)|140.211.15.9|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2487985 (2.4M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘phpBB-3.0.12.zip’

100%[=====================================================================================================================>] 2,487,985    1.11MB/s   in 2.1s   

2014-09-28 04:51:38 (1.11 MB/s) - ‘phpBB-3.0.12.zip’ saved [2487985/2487985]

verify the md5. this is available on the downloads page, in this case it was MD5: e86ffc334ea53d934c0c1c0588429803

$ md5sum phpBB-3.0.12.zip
e86ffc334ea53d934c0c1c0588429803  phpBB-3.0.12.zip