User:Dan Nessett/Technical/Notes on Forum Software

Registration Anti-spam modification

Here is a screen shot of the registration panel with questions.

Installing forum software on CentOs 5.4

• Download webinstall.php from http://download.simplemachines.org/. Store it in ~.

• Execute:

cd /usr/local/src
sudo mkdir forum
sudo chmod 777 forum
cd forum
sudo cp ~/webinstall.php .
sudo chmod 777 webinstall.php

• Add following to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

Alias /forum/ "/usr/local/src/forum/"
<Directory "/usr/local/src/forum/">
	Options FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /smf "/usr/local/src/forum"

• Restart apache2 and access:

http://localhost/forum/webinstall.php

• Make sure ftp daemon is installed. If not, install vsftpd and execute:

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start

• Make sure mysql and php-mysql is installed. If not install it. Then execute:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd graceful