forkbb/readme.md

ForkBB rev.41 Pre-Alpha Readme

About

ForkBB is a free and open source forum software. The project is based on FluxBB_by_Visman

Note

Please DO NOT use this revision in production, it is for test only.

Many functions of the forum are not implemented. No: plugins/extensions system, ...

Requirements

• PHP 7.3+
• PHP extensions: pdo, intl, json, mbstring, fileinfo
• PHP extensions (desirable): gd or imagick (for upload avatars and other images)
• A database such as MySQL 5.5.3 or later (Drivers for other databases are not realized now)

Install

For Apache:

• Document Root == public folder (recommended):
  1. Rename public/.dist.htaccess to public/.htaccess,
  2. Rename public/index.dist.php to public/index.php;
• Document Root != public folder:
  1. Rename .dist.htaccess to .htaccess,
  2. Rename index.dist.php to index.php.

For NGINX:

• Example nginx configuration.
• Note: Root must point to the public/ directory.
• Note: The index.dist.php file does not need to be renamed.

Links

• Development: https://github.com/forkbb/forkbb

License

This project is under MIT license. Please see the license file for details.