Phorum is a popular
web-based forum application in PHP.
Security warning!
Like hundreds of other free software packages on our servers, Phorum is
available and officially supported, but this should not be taken as an
endorsement.
Many third-party PHP scripts lack in proper maintainership and have poor
track records with respect to security.
We work diligently to keep all preinstalled software packages up-to-date
and we can only guarantee that security fixes will be applied as soon as
they are released.
Installing the software
A maintained, preinstalled version of Phorum is available our servers.
In order to use it, you need to run the install.sh script in
/var/www/phorum, from the ~/www/ directory of your choice:
$ cd ~/www/mydomain.ext
$ sh /var/www/phorum/install.sh myphorum
Database setup
Phorum uses MySQL as its database backend so before proceeding further,
you need to create a database and a MySQL user. You can do this from the
Databases section of the web interface, or alternatively from the
shell interface:
csoftadm> db mysql add myphorumdb
csoftadm> db mysql useradd myphorumuser
csoftadm> db mysql grant myphorumdb myphorumuser all
If you wish to reuse the contents of a previous Phorum installation,
assuming mydump.txt was previously generated by mysqldump,
you would use:
$ cat mydump.txt | mysql -u myphorumuser -p myphorumdb
Editing config.php
Open the file include/db/config.php in the Phorum installation
directory in a text editor, and edit the name, user and
password settings accordingly:
Point your browser to the URL
(http://mydomain.ext/myphorum/admin.php) and
click "Continue".
Enter the requested information under "Creating an Administrator".
The installation is now complete. You can now log in to the administrator
account.
