{"id":1251,"date":"2020-08-14T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T06:51:00","slug":"how-to-install-vanilla-forums-on-debian-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/how-to-install-vanilla-forums-on-debian-9\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Vanilla Forums on Debian 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"linux-289747025\" class=\"linux-before-1st-paragraph linux-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting\/?mtm_campaign=blogs&#038;mtm_source=lhs&#038;mtm_medium=blog&#038;mtm_content=managed-vps&#038;mtm_cid=1339&#038;mtm_placement=inline\" aria-label=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1340090_NVMeGoogleAds_728x90_041322.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1340090_NVMeGoogleAds_728x90_041322.jpg 728w, https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1340090_NVMeGoogleAds_728x90_041322-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vanilla Forums on a Debian 9 server or VPS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/configure-vanilla-forums-forum-board-software-on-debian-9-server.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"60\" \/>Vanilla Forums is a modern, lightweight, and open-source forum software written in PHP. Vanilla Forums has many features, settings, and areas that can be customized. The flexibility and free nature of Vanilla Forums (plus its modern design and feature set) makes it an attractive choice for anyone looking to start their own forum to talk to people on. Installing Vanilla Forums on Debian 9 is an easy task if you follow the steps below carefully. Let&#8217;s begin with the installation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Prerequisites<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A server or VPS running\u00a0Debian 9.<\/li>\n<li>Apache web server 2.0 or higher including the <code>mod_rewrite<\/code> Apache module. Alternatively, you can use Nginx as a web server with PHP support in place of Apache 2.<\/li>\n<li>PHP 7.1 or higher (PHP 7.3 is preferred) with the following PHP extensions enabled: mbstring, cURL, GD, and PDO.<\/li>\n<li>MySQL 5.7 or higher (or Percona\/MariaDB).<\/li>\n<li>Access to the root user account (or access to an admin account with root privileges).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be covering the installation of all of these prerequisites, so don&#8217;t worry if you&#8217;re missing some or all of them. You can skip over the ones that you already have installed if needed, but we recommend following along in case something is configured differently from your setup.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1: Log in to the Server &amp; Update the Server OS Packages<\/h2>\n<p>Log in to your Debian server via SSH as the root user:<\/p>\n<pre>ssh root@<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IP_Address<\/span> -p <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Port_number<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>You will need to replace &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IP_Address<\/span>&#8216; and &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Port_number<\/span>&#8216; with your server&#8217;s respective IP address and SSH port number. Additionally, replace &#8216;root&#8217; with the username of the admin account if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Before we can start with the Vanilla Forums installation, we have to make sure that all Debian packages installed on the server are up to date. We can do this by running the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>Once all packages are up to date, we can begin by installing Apache.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2: Apache Web Server Installation<\/h2>\n<p>To install the Apache web server, run the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install apache2<\/pre>\n<p>After the installation is complete, enable Apache to start automatically upon server boot with:<\/p>\n<pre>systemctl enable apache2<\/pre>\n<p>We can also check the status of your Apache service with the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>systemctl status apache2<\/pre>\n<p>Output:<\/p>\n<pre>\u25cf apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server\r\n   Loaded: loaded (\/lib\/systemd\/system\/apache2.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)\r\n   Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-07-24 10:09:17 CDT; 8s ago\r\n  Process: 1204 ExecStart=\/usr\/sbin\/apachectl start (code=exited, status=0\/SUCCESS)\r\n Main PID: 1208 (apache2)\r\n   CGroup: \/system.slice\/apache2.service\r\n           \u251c\u25001208 \/usr\/sbin\/apache2 -k start\r\n           \u2514\u25001209 \/usr\/sbin\/apache2 -k start<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 3: Install MariaDB and Create a MariaDB Database<\/h2>\n<p>For the purposes of this tutorial, we will install MariaDB to serve as the database server. This is where Vanilla Forums will store its posts and content. Run the following command to install MariaDB 10.1, the latest version available in the official Debian 9 repositories at the time of this article being written, along with some required MariaDB packages:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install mariadb-common mariadb-client-10.1 mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-server-10.1 mariadb-server-core-10.1<\/pre>\n<p>Once the installation is complete, issue the following command to further improve the security of your MariaDB server installation. The command is optional, however we <strong>strongly<\/strong> recommend it as it improves the security of your MariaDB server:<\/p>\n<pre>mysql_secure_installation<\/pre>\n<p>We recommend answering every prompt with \u00a0&#8216;Y&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Once this is done, create a new MariaDB database and user for the Vanilla Forums installation.<\/p>\n<p>Log in to the MariaDB console as MariaDB user (e.g. root):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo mysql -uroot -p<\/pre>\n<p>Run the following commands to create a new MariaDB database, user, and grant privileges for the user to access the database:<\/p>\n<pre>MariaDB [(none)]&gt; CREATE DATABASE vanilladb character set UTF8 collate utf8_bin;\r\nMariaDB [(none)]&gt; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON vanilladb.* TO 'vanilla'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">StrongPassword<\/span>';\r\nMariaDB [(none)]&gt; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\r\nMariaDB [(none)]&gt; quit<\/pre>\n<p>Remember to replace <code>StrongPassword<\/code> with an actual strong password.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 4: Install PHP 7.3 and Required PHP Packages<\/h2>\n<p>We will be using the Ond\u0159ej Sur\u00fd repository for PHP to install PHP 7.3.\u00a0Import the signing key and enable the PPA for PHP 7.3 by using the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>wget -q https:\/\/packages.sury.org\/php\/apt.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -\r\necho \"deb https:\/\/packages.sury.org\/php\/ stretch main\" | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/php.list<\/pre>\n<p>Install the <code>ca-certificates<\/code> and <code>apt-transport-https<\/code> packages by running the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https<\/pre>\n<p>Once you are done with this, update your package manager once again using the command below:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>Install PHP 7.3 and PHP extensions:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install php7.3 php7.3-cli php7.3-common php7.3-curl php7.3-gd php7.3-intl php7.3-json php7.3-mbstring php7.3-mysql php7.3-zip libapache2-mod-php7.3<\/pre>\n<p>Disable PHP 7.0 if it is currently enabled:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo a2dismod php7.0<\/pre>\n<p>Then, enable PHP 7.3:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo a2enmod php7.3<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 5: Create a new Apache Configuration File<\/h2>\n<p>Create a new Apache configuration file for the domain\/subdomain name that we will be using to access the Vanilla Forums application. For this tutorial, we will use &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vanilla.domain.com<\/span>&#8216;. Be sure to replace any occurrence of that domain name with your own registered domain name.<\/p>\n<pre>vi \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/vanilla.conf<\/pre>\n<p>Add the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;\r\nServerName vanilla.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">domain.com<\/span>\r\nDocumentRoot \/var\/www\/vanilla\/\r\nCustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/vanilla.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">domain.com<\/span>.access.log combined\r\nErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}\/vanilla.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">domain.com<\/span>.error.log\r\n&lt;Directory \/var\/www\/vanilla&gt;\r\nDirectoryIndex index.php\r\nOptions -Indexes\r\nAllowOverride All\r\nOrder allow,deny\r\nallow from all\r\n&lt;\/Directory&gt;\r\n&lt;\/VirtualHost&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>Again, do not forget to replace <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vanilla.domain.com<\/span> with your actual domain\/subdomain name. Save and close the Apache configuration file.<\/p>\n<p>Create a new directory named &#8216;vanilla&#8217; in your web server&#8217;s directory:<\/p>\n<pre>mkdir -p \/var\/www\/vanilla<\/pre>\n<p>To enable the newly created configuration file in Apache, run:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo a2ensite vanilla<\/pre>\n<p>Then, disable the default Apache configuration file using this next line:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo a2dissite 000-default<\/pre>\n<p>Also, we need to enable the Apache &#8216;rewrite&#8217; module (if it is not already enabled):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo a2enmod rewrite<\/pre>\n<p>Check if there are errors with the newly created Apache configuration:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apachectl -t\r\nSyntax OK<\/pre>\n<p>If the syntax is OK and there are no errors, we can restart the Apache web service:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo systemctl restart apache2.service<\/pre>\n<h2>Step 6: Install Vanilla Forums<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Vanilla Forums is 3.1. Download the latest stable version of Vanilla Forums and extract it in the <code>\/var\/www\/<\/code> directory:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/var\/www\/\r\nwget https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/5018160\/uploads\/addons\/1KCWYE1PTWN7.zip -o vanilla-core-3.1.zip\r\nmv package\/* vanilla\r\nmv \/var\/www\/package\/.htaccess.dist \/var\/www\/vanilla\/.htaccess<\/pre>\n<p>Change the owner and set the correct permissions for all files in the <code>\/var\/www\/vanilla\/<\/code> directory using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data \/var\/www\/vanilla<\/pre>\n<p>Open <code>http:\/\/vanilla.domain.com<\/code> in your favorite web browser and follow the easy instructions: enter the database name, database username and password and set the username and password for the administrator user account of the Vanilla Forums application.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1253\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-installation1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-installation1.png 697w, https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-installation1-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><br \/>\nThen, click on the &#8216;Continue&#8217; button and we will automatically be logged in to the Vanilla Forums administration back-end:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-back-end.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-back-end.png 887w, https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-back-end-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/vanilla-forums-back-end-768x474.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! You now have a working Vanilla Forums instance on your Debian 9 VPS.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1258\" src=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/best-managed-vanilla-forums-maintenance-configured-by-experts-for-debian-centos-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"60\" \/>Of course, you don\u2019t have to install Vanilla Forums on Debian 9 if your server is covered by our <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxhostsupport.com\/monthly-server-management.html\">Managed Linux Support<\/a> services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Vanilla Forums on your Debian VPS for you. They can install it, configure it, and do anything else that you might need. 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