Vanilla is an opensoure discussion forum the installation is also very easy. please follow the steps to get an successful vanilla forum installation. maybe your need some per-installed packages to avoide any issues
Requirements
PHP version 7.0 or newer.
PHP extensions mbstring, cURL, GD, and PDO, MySQLi, OpenSSL.
MySQL version 5.6 or newer (or Percona/MariaDB equivalent).
Web server software (Nginx, Apache …).
SSL encryption.
Hosts :
127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 mohamed-pc ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters 192.168.2.30 vanilla.com ~
System Info
osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu-bionic 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Network
osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$ ip a 2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 02:fc:ab:43:0a:1b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.0.101/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic enp0s3 valid_lft 6342sec preferred_lft 6342sec inet6 fe80::fc:abff:fe43:a1b/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$
Configure Time zone
osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'Europe/Amsterdam' Local time is now: Wed Mar 13 19:30:22 CET 2019. Universal Time is now: Wed Mar 13 18:30:22 UTC 2019.
Update your system to the the last level
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
1-Install PHP and Needed Extensions
The last supported PHP for Ubuntu 18.04 is the 7.2 version
Please add this to your source list :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu bionic main
Install PHP
The last step to install LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04 is to install the PHP preprocessor.
PHP adds server-side web page processing that enables dynamic web pages.
Run the following command to install PHP.
apt install php php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-common php7.2-mbstring php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql
Next, we need to tell Apache to serve PHP pages first.
Open /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf file and change it to have index.php listed first.
<IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm </IfModule>
Finally, we need to restart the Apache Web Server.
systemctl restart apache2
Show InstalledPHP version and php Modules
With this command you can do it
#php -m [PHP Modules] calendar Core ctype curl ....... #php --version PHP 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (cli) (built: Feb 8 2019 14:54:22) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
2-Install MariaDB Server
You need a database Server, can be Mariadb server or Mysql.
To install latest stable mariadbserver and mariadb client you can do it on this way.
please edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mariadb.list
and add  on it
# http://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/ deb [arch=amd64] http://nyc2.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic main deb-src http://nyc2.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic main
Please update  the repo lists
#sudo apt -get update
Now install the packages
osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
Set Root Mysql password :Â
How to set root mysql password ?
osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$ sudo mysql_secure_installation NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY! In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we'll need the current password for the root user. If you've just installed MariaDB, and you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank, so you should just press enter here. Enter current password for root (enter for none): OK, successfully used password, moving on... Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MariaDB root user without the proper authorisation. Set root password? [Y/n] y New password: Re-enter new password: Password updated successfully! Reloading privilege tables.. ... Success! By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a production environment. Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y ... Success! Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network. Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y ... Success! By default, MariaDB comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed before moving into a production environment. Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y - Dropping test database... ... Success! - Removing privileges on test database... ... Success! Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far will take effect immediately. Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y ... Success! Cleaning up... All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB installation should now be secure. Thanks for using MariaDB! osradar@ubuntu-bionic:~$
Enable MariaDB to start on boot and then start the service:
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo systemctl restart mariadb
Connect and Create Database and database user related.
Connect as root mysql user predefined before :
root@ubuntu-server-18:/var/log# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 57 Server version: 10.4.3-MariaDB-1:10.4.3+maria~bionic-log mariadb.org binary distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> create database vanilla; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'vanillauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'vanillapass'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.003 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON vanilla.* TO 'vanillauser'@'localhost'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.002 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILLEGES;
3-Install Apache Server
Lets Install The latest apache Servers from Ubuntu 18 repo
#apt install apache2
3-1-Enable and Start apache2
root@ubuntu-server-18:~# systemctl enable apache2 Synchronizing state of apache2.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable apache2 root@ubuntu-server-18:~# systemctl start apache2 root@ubuntu-server-18:~#
Check apache2 with http://IP
How to Create VirtualHost in Ubuntu 18 ?
to make Apache serving contents, it’s necessary to create a virtual host file with the correct directives. Instead of modifying the default configuration file located at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf directly,
let’s make a new Virtualhost at /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf:
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/vanilla.com.conf
Paste in the following configuration but updated the new directory and domain name:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/vanilla.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] ServerName vanilla.com ServerAlias www.vanilla.com DocumentRoot /var/www/vanilla.com/html ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost>
Save and exit
Please ensure the directory are already created
Let’s enable the file with the a2ensite tool:
sudo a2ensite vanilla.com.conf
Disable the default site defined in 000-default.conf:
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Next, let’s test for configuration errors:
sudo apache2ctl configtest
You should see the following output:
Output
Syntax OK
Restart Apache to apply the changes:
Download Vanilla File to /var/www/vanilla.com/html
root@ubuntu-server-18:~# cd /var/www/vanilla.com/html/ root@ubuntu-server-18:/var/www/vanilla.com/html# wget https://open.vanillaforums.com/get/vanilla-core-2.8.1,zip --2019-03-18 21:51:05-- https://open.vanillaforums.com/get/vanilla-core-2.8.1 Resolving open.vanillaforums.com (open.vanillaforums.com)... 2606:4700:7::a29f:804f, 2606:4700:7::a29f:8a4e, 162.159.138.78, ... Connecting to open.vanillaforums.com (open.vanillaforums.com)|2606:4700:7::a29f:804f|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘vanilla-core-2.8.1.zip’
Extract the zip file. and reload the Apache configurations
#unzip vanilla-core-2.8.1.zip
#mv vanilla-2.8.1Â vanilla
root@ubuntu-server-18:~# sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/vanilla.com/
root@ubuntu-server-18:~# systemctl restart apache2
root@ubuntu-server-18:~#
Now Please go to http://host/vanilla in my case vanilla.com/vanilla and fillup your information and database credentials and gooo
Enjoy
