How to install Elkarte Community Forum on Ubuntu 14.04

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Install Elkarte Community Forum on Ubuntu</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>ElkArte </b>is a modern, powerful community building forum software. It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.elkarte.net/community/themes/default/images/_besocial/logo_elk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.elkarte.net/community/themes/default/images/_besocial/logo_elk.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>ElkArte Features:</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ElkArte is designed to provide you with all the features you need for a full featured community forum and website right out of the box.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">With an extensive default feature set, there is no need to install a lot of additions to get your site up and running. Just some of our highlights include:</span></span></div> <div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">@Mentioning users including notifications</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Likes for posts and topics</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Drafts, including auto save</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">OpenID 2.0</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Two modern, responsive themes that look good in any modern browser, smartphone or tablet.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Integrated video embedding for youtube, vimeo and dailymotion</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Drag and drop ordering in the administration interface</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Drag and drop file attachments</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Improved Anti Spam measures</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Improved password hashing using industry standards</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Bad Behaviour built in</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Automatic combining and minifying of JavaScript and CSS</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Posting by Email</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Ajax previews and responses throughout the user interface</span></li> <li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Utilizes jQuery and Font Awesome</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">...and much more!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> </span></li> </ul> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Let’s start with the installation. Make sure your server OS packages are fully up-to-date:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">apt-get update </span><span style="color: lime;">apt-get upgrade</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Download the latest version of <b>Elkarte </b>available at https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/releases/ to the server and extract it using the following commands:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">cd /opt wget -O elkarte.zip https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/releases/download/v1.0.6/ElkArte_v1-0-6_install.zip mkdir -p /var/www/html/elkarte </span><span style="color: lime;">unzip -o elkarte.zip -d /var/www/html/elkarte/</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Create a new <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Mysql">MySQL database</a> for Elkarte to use and assign a user to it with full permissions:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE elkartedb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON elkartedb.* TO 'elkarteuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> Do not forget to replace 'your-password' with a strong password.</div> <div> Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named '<b>elkarte.conf</b>' on your virtual server:</div> </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">touch /etc/apache2</span><span style="color: orange;">/sites-available/elkarte.conf</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then, run the following command:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/elkarte.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/elkarte.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Or, use the a2ensite to enable the 'elkarte.conf' configuration in Apache:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo a2ensite elkarte.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Edit the 'elkarte.conf' configuration file:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/elkarte.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">and add the following lines to it:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/elkarte/ ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com <Directory /var/www/html/elkarte/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/yourdomain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">In order to set memory_limit, max_execution_time, max_input_time, post_max_size and upload_max_filesize and disable safe mode and Register Globals in <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/PHP">PHP</a>, edit the php.ini configuration file and add/modify the following lines:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">vi /etc/php5/</span><span style="color: lime;">apache2/php.ini</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">register_globals = Off post_max_size = 128M upload_max_filesize = 128M memory_limit = 128M max_execution_time = 300 max_input_time = 300 safe_mode = Off</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Optionally, add/modify the following lines in php.ini:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">display_errors = Off html_errors = Off display_startup_errors = Off log_errors = On default_charset = "UTF-8" mbstring.func_overload = 0</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Set the proper file permissions for the Apache web server to write to the Elkarte document root ('/var/www/html/elkarte') directory:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/elkarte/</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><div> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Enable the Apache2 rewrite module if it is not already done so:</span></div> </span></div> <div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">sudo</span><span style="color: lime;"> a2enmod rewrite</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"></span></div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">service apache2 restart</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> Open your favorite web browser, navigate to http://yourdomain.com , start the installation process and follow the easy instructions: enter your MySQL username, password and database name, then create an administrator account. For security reason, it is recommended to delete the install.php file.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Log in to the administration back-end of the Elkarte community forum at http://yourdomain.com/index.php?action=login and configure it according to your needs, install add-ons etc.</div> </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kYwF2E7K9V0/Vu1YlTYC7VI/AAAAAAAABA8/jrWE9oOdOWsJYOhbyApnJcfgQVseRXhuw/s1600/elkarte_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kYwF2E7K9V0/Vu1YlTYC7VI/AAAAAAAABA8/jrWE9oOdOWsJYOhbyApnJcfgQVseRXhuw/s1600/elkarte_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></div> </div>

How to install Elkarte Community Forum on Ubuntu 14.04

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