From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 25 4:59:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB2737B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B5343E31 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 04:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rootman22@attbi.com) Received: from C595663-A.attbi.com ([12.254.218.35]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020725115909.BEUK1451.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@C595663-A.attbi.com>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:59:09 +0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:58:58 -0600 From: Joe Warner To: "Christy Roberts" Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Brand new user! Message-Id: <20020725055858.5f759940.rootman22@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c2330f$da1c29c0$81559986@genesis.mun.ca> References: <000001c2330f$da1c29c0$81559986@genesis.mun.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:14:28 -0230 "Christy Roberts" wrote: > Hi everyone! > > We're trying to set up a phpBB bulletin board on our website (which > doesn't actually exist yet haha), that will use MySQL as the back end. > We received an Apache server from tech services that has FreeBSD already > installed on it. And we're on our own now! I just burned MySQL and > phpBB onto a CD and am going to try to install them on the server. > > I have never used unix before nor do I have any experience working with > servers or hardware. I'm a software developer YIKES! Does anyone have > any tips or hints for me? I would really appreciate this as I have no > idea where to begin YIKES! :) > > Thanks ever so much... > > Christy > St. John's, Newfoundland > :-) > Hi Christy, Does your install of Apache include php4 support? I'd recommend this if you're installing a PHP based forum system like phpBB. /usr/ports/www/mod_php4 There was a recent vulnerability discovered with older versions but I believe the port has been updated. I suggest cvsup or portupgrade to upgrade your ports before installing anything, just to be safe. I'd also recommend /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin or /usr/ports/sysutils/webmin for making management of your MySQL databases a bit easier: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ http://www.webmin.com/ As far as phpBB goes, you can certainly install it from the ports collection but I recommend you just download the current version (2.0.1 - Full package) and unzip it in your web directory: /usr/local/www/ Once you have unzipped it and followed it's install/configuration instructions, you can simply link to where you store your web docs: ln -s /usr/local/www/phpbb /usr/local/www/data/(name_it_whatever_you_want) Regards Joe -- Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. -- The Anarchist Cookbook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message