{"id":3328,"date":"2014-03-13T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2022-12-13T04:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T10:26:36","slug":"how-to-install-simple-machines-2-forum-software-on-a-debian-vps-with-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-simple-machines-2-forum-software-on-a-debian-vps-with-nginx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Simple Machines 2 Forum Software on a Debian VPS with Nginx"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3329 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"smf2 vps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-vps.png\" alt=\"smf2 vps\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-vps.png 200w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-vps-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Simple Machines forum is one of the best open source forum platforms available on the Internet powered by PHP and MySQL.<\/p>\n<p>In this step-by-step tutorial, we will show you how to easily install\u00a0Simple Machines 2 forum on your Debian based <a title=\"Debian VPS Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/debian-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual server<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version is\u00a0Simple Machines 2.0.7 and it requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PHP 5.2 or higher (the php5-fpm package is required for Nginx servers) with BCMath and GD Graphics Library 2.0 or higher enabled. Also, file_uploads option should be enabled and safe mode, register globals and magic quotes settings should be disabled;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MySQL 5.0\u00a0or higher installed on your <a title=\"Linux VPS Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux virtual server<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have Apache installed on your server, stop the Apache service and remove Apache packages:<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/apache2 stop\r\napt-get remove apache2*<\/pre>\n<p>In order to install Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL on your <a title=\"Debian VPS Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/debian-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Debian VPS<\/a>, execute the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php5-cli php5-mysql php5-mcrypt php5-gd mysql-client-5.5 mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5<\/pre>\n<p>Download Simple Machines 2 available at http:\/\/download.simplemachines.org\/ to the server and extract it using the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/root\r\nwget http:\/\/download.simplemachines.org\/index.php\/smf_2-0-7_install.tar.bz2\r\nmkdir -p \/var\/www\/{your-domain.com,your-domain.com\/forum}\r\ntar -xvf smf_2-0-7_install.tar.bz2 -C \/var\/www\/your-domain.com\/forum<\/pre>\n<p>Create a new MySQL database for Simple Machines on your server:<\/p>\n<pre>mysql -u root -p\r\nmysql&gt; CREATE DATABASE smf2db;\r\nmysql&gt; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON smf2db.* TO 'smf2user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION;\r\nmysql&gt; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\r\nmysql&gt; quit<\/pre>\n<p>Locate the PHP configuration file using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>php5-fpm -i | grep php.ini\r\nConfiguration File (php.ini) Path =&gt; \/etc\/php5\/fpm\r\nLoaded Configuration File =&gt; \/etc\/php5\/fpm\/php.ini<\/pre>\n<p>Edit the \/etc\/php5\/fpm\/php.ini configuration file using the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>vi \/etc\/php5\/fpm\/php.ini<\/pre>\n<p>and add\/modify the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre>memory_limit = 128M\r\ncgi.fix_pathinfo = 0\r\nfile_uploads = On\r\nmax_input_time = 60\r\nmax_execution_time = 60\r\nregister_globals = Off\r\nsafe_mode = Off\r\nsession.use_trans_sid = 0\r\nmagic_quotes_sybase = Off<\/pre>\n<p>Execute the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/php5-fpm restart<\/pre>\n<p>Create a new Nginx configuration file:<\/p>\n<pre>vi \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/your-domain.com<\/pre>\n<p>and add the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre>server {\r\n\tlisten 80;\r\n\tserver_name your-domain.com;\r\n\troot \/var\/www\/your-domain.com\/forum\/;\r\n\tindex index.php index.html;\r\n\taccess_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/your-domain.com-access.log;\r\n\terror_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/your-domain.com-error.log;\r\nlocation ~ \\.php {\r\n\tfastcgi_index index.php;\r\n\tfastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\\.php)(.*)$;\r\n\tinclude \/etc\/nginx\/fastcgi_params;\r\n\tfastcgi_pass unix:\/var\/run\/php5-fpm.sock;\r\n\tfastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;\r\n\t}\r\n}<\/pre>\n<p>Create a symbolic link using the following command:<\/p>\n<p>ln -s \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/your-domain.com \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/your-domain.com<\/p>\n<p>and restart the Nginx web server for the changes to take effect:<\/p>\n<pre>\/etc\/init.d\/nginx restart<\/pre>\n<p>The webserver user (www-data) needs to be able to write to &#8216;attachments&#8217;, &#8216;avatars&#8217;, &#8216;cache&#8217;, &#8216;Packages&#8217;, &#8216;installed.list&#8217;, &#8216;Smileys&#8217; and &#8216;Themes&#8217; directories and &#8216;agreement.txt&#8217;, &#8216;Settings.php&#8217;, &#8216;Settings_bak.php&#8217; files so you can easily accomplish that by executing the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>chown www-data:www-data -R \/var\/www\/your-domain.com\/<\/pre>\n<p>Open http:\/\/your-domain.com\/install.php in your favorite web browser and follow the easy instructions. Once the installation is complete, it is recommended to delete the &#8216;install.php&#8217; script from your server:<\/p>\n<pre>rm -rf \/var\/www\/your-domain.com\/forum\/install.php<\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2.png\" alt=\"smf2\" width=\"350\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2.png 700w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-600x353.png 600w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smf2-624x367.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to to customize the look and feel of your forum there are many themes available for download at http:\/\/custom.simplemachines.org\/themes\/ . 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