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            <h1>Installing phpBB Forum/Bulletin Board on Debian</h1>
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	<li>Log into the Debian device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update repositories and install any available software updates<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client curl<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt install php php-mysql php-cli php-json php-opcache php-gd php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the phpbb database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE phpbb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON phpbb.* TO &#39;phpbb_rw&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;!!phpBB##&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands to download and extract phpBB in the Apache webroot
	<div class="codeBlock"># download latest phpbb version<br />
	sudo wget -O phpbb.tar.gz https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.3/3.3.2/phpBB-3.3.2.tar.bz2<br />
	# extract phpbb.tar.gz<br />
	sudo tar xvf phpbb.tar.gz --directory /var/www<br />
	# rename phpbb folder<br />
	sudo mv /var/www/phpBB* /var/www/phpbb<br />
	# create a new phpbb.conf file to configure the site<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpbb.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into phpbb.conf<br />
	<p>Alias /phpbb &quot;/var/www/phpbb/&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory /var/www/phpbb/&gt;<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; AllowOverride All<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;</p></li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to phpbb.conf</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable the phpbb site and required PHP modules<br />
	sudo a2ensite phpbb<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# set the owner of the new phpbb directory to www-data<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/phpbb<br />
	# restart apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb</li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_138017_24">The phpBB introduction screen should be displayed</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_138017_24">Click the Install tab</label></li>
	<li><label for="cb_li_138017_24">Click the Install button</label></li>
	<li>Input an administrator username, email address and password &gt; Click Submit</li>
	<li>Enter the database hostname, username, password and database name &gt; Click Submit</li>
	<li>Click the Submit button on the&nbsp;Server configuration page</li>
	<li>Click the Submit button on the E-mail configuration page</li>
	<li>Enter a title and short description on the&nbsp;Bulletin board configuration page &gt; Click Submit</li>
	<li>When the installation completes run the following command in terminal to delete the /install directory<br />
	sudo rm /var/www/phpbb/install -r</li>
	<li>In a web browser, navigate to http://DNSorIP/phpbb</li>
	<li>Welcome to your very own, self-hosted forum with phpBB</li>
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