How to Install MyBB on FreeBSD 12
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MyBB is a free and open source, intuitive and extensible forum program. MyBB source code is hosted on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install MyBB forum software on a fresh FreeBSD 12 Vultr instance.
Requirements
- PHP, at least version 5.2
- MySQL, at least version 5.0
- Nginx
- The following PHP extensions:
- SimpleXML
- mbstring
- gd
- The respective vendor-specific database PHP extension
NOTE: Replace all instances of example.com
with your domain name.
Before you begin
Check the FreeBSD version.
uname -ro# FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE
Ensure that your FreeBSD system is up to date.
freebsd-update fetch installpkg update && pkg upgrade -y
Install the necessary packages.
pkg install -y sudo vim unzip curl wget bash socat git
Create a new user account with your preferred username. We will use johndoe
.
adduser# Username: johndoe# Full name: John Doe# Uid (Leave empty for default): <Enter># Login group [johndoe]: <Enter># Login group is johndoe. Invite johndoe into other groups? []: wheel# Login class [default]: <Enter># Shell (sh csh tcsh nologin) [sh]: bash# Home directory [/home/johndoe]: <Enter># Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default): <Enter># Use password-based authentication? [yes]: <Enter># Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]: <Enter># Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]: <Enter># Enter password: your_secure_password# Enter password again: your_secure_password# Lock out the account after creation? [no]: <Enter># OK? (yes/no): yes# Add another user? (yes/no): no# Goodbye!
Run the visudo
command and uncomment the %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
line, to allow members of the wheel
group to execute any command.
visudo# Uncomment by removing hash (#) sign# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
Now, switch to your newly created user with su
.
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo tzsetup
Step 1 – Install PHP and required PHP extensions
Install PHP, as well as the necessary PHP extensions.
sudo pkg install -y php72 php72-mbstring php72-tokenizer php72-pdo php72-pdo_mysql php72-openssl php72-hash php72-json php72-phar php72-filter php72-zlib php72-dom php72-xml php72-xmlwriter php72-xmlreader php72-pecl-imagick php72-curl php72-session php72-ctype php72-iconv php72-gd php72-simplexml php72-zip php72-filter php72-tokenizer php72-calendar php72-fileinfo php72-intl php72-phar php72-soap php72-xmlrpc php72-opcache php72-mysqli php72-bcmath php72-gmp
Check the version.
php --version# PHP 7.2.19 (cli) (built: Jun 20 2019 01:25:01) ( NTS )# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Soft-link php.ini-production
to php.ini
.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini
Enable and start PHP-FPM.
sudo sysrc php_fpm_enable=yessudo service php-fpm start
Step 2 – Install MariaDB and create a database for MyBB
Install MariaDB.
sudo pkg install -y mariadb102-client mariadb102-server
Check the version.
mysql --version# mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.24-MariaDB, for FreeBSD12.0 (amd64) using readline 5.1
Start and enable MariaDB.
sudo sysrc mysql_enable="yes" sudo service mysql-server start
Run the mysql_secure_installation
script to improve the security of your MariaDB installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Log into MariaDB as the root user.
mysql -u root -p# Enter password:
Create a new MariaDB database and user. Remember the credentials for this new user.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;exit;
Step 3 – Install and configure Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo pkg install -y nginx
Check the version.
nginx -v# nginx version: nginx/1.14.2
Enable and start Nginx.
sudo sysrc nginx_enable=yessudo service nginx start
Run sudo vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/mybb.conf
and set up Nginx for MyBB.
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name example.com; root /usr/local/www/mybb; index index.php; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ /(inc|uploads/avatars) { deny all; } location ~ /.php$ { try_files $uri =404; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; }}
Save the file and exit.
Now we need to include mybb.conf
in the main nginx.conf
file.
Run sudo vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
and add the following line to the http {}
block.
include mybb.conf;
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo service nginx reload
Step 4 – Install MyBB
Create a document root directory.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/www/mybb
Change ownership of the /usr/local/www/mybb
directory to johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /usr/local/www/mybb
Download the latest release of MyBB and unzip it.
cd /usr/local/www/mybbwget https://resources.mybb.com/downloads/mybb_1821.zipunzip mybb_1821.zipmv /usr/local/www/mybb/Upload/* /usr/local/www/mybb
Remove the downloaded .zip file.
rm mybb_1821.ziprmdir Upload
Change ownership of the /usr/local/www/mybb
directory to www
.
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/mybb
As the last step, open your domain and follow the installation wizard for MyBB. To access the installer you must navigate to the /install
directory of your site in your web browser. For example, if your domain is example.com and you uploaded your MyBB files to the root directory then navigate to http://example.com/install
. To access MyBB admin, append /admin to your site URL. You have successfully installed your MyBB.
After the installation, you should remove the /install
directory from your server to prevent anyone else from running the installation again.
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/www/mybb/install/
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