README.md

Set up Flarum.

Environment

1. Ubuntu 16.04
2. PHP 7.1
3. Apache2
4. MySQL 5.6

1. Environment Preparation

Ⅰ· Apache

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Ⅱ· PHP7.1 & Extention

$sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common

$sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-curl

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-dom

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-gd

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-json

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-mysql

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-mbstring

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-zip

$sudo apt-get install -y php7.1-tokenizer

Ⅲ· MySQL

$sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

Ⅳ· Composer

$php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

$php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

$php composer-setup.php

$php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Move the composer.phar right in the working drectory to /usr/local/bin/

$mv ./composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Try $composer in your teminal to test.

2. Install Flarum

Reference to the offcial documention

3. Set up Mail Server.

Gmail is recommened.

Driver : SMTP

Username : [email protected]

Password : yourpassword

Port : 465

Host : smtp.gmail.com

Encryption : SSL

Then enable Less secure apps for gmail account.

4. Extensions

You can find various extensions of flarum here.