Friday, October 6, 2006

Phorum_on_Plesk_Installation


Installation of Phorum
on Plesk VPS Fedora Linux
(J.Jeronimus okt 2006)
With the installation described below and (see install.txt in phorum-5.1.16.a.tar.gz ) Phorem started working
However there are still some questions.

(
install.txt = document_root/docs/install.txt
In my text I prefer to use
     phorum_url     ( =  phorum url )
     document_root  ( =  document root )
)
1. System Description
Phorum version 5.1.16.a (See http://www.phorum.org )
System:
VPS fedora linux Plesk version 7.5.3 ( Flexservers.nl Flexservers.com )
2. Installation
2.1  Step 1: Plesk Control Panel
(See  install.txt 3.2 + 3.4 )
In Plesk control panel created FORUMSUBDOMAIN under MYDOMAIN_COM
Enabled php for FORUMSUBDOMAIN. MYDOMAIN_COM.
Created database with a users for phorum
Uploaded tar file
2.2 Step 2: SSH
As root ( See install.txt 3.2 + 3.5 )
Untarred Phorum
     tar xvzf phorum-5.1.16.a.tar.gz

Using include/db/config.php.sample
     created and modified include/db/config.php
Moved untarred directory structure with files to document_root ( = /home/httpdocs/vhosts/MYDOMAIN_COM/subdomains/FORUMSUBDOMAIN/httpdocs )
( phorum_url = http://FORUMSUBDOMAIN.MYDOMAIN_COM/ )
2.3 Step 3: Web based installer
See  install.txt 3.6 …
2.4 Ready

(Verplaatst van mijn blog naar hier http://blogger.xs4all.nl/jeronimu/archive/2006/11/02/Phorum_on_Plesk_Installation.aspx )