I thought I'd post a tutorial on this because it's so simple to do
This can be adapted to most distros, but is designed for Fedora. In RedHat you can use apt-get instead of yum, same goes for Debian although I can't guarantee everything else will be the same!
1. Log into your Linode as the root user; if you aren't root, type
su -
2. Type:
yum install httpd mysql-server mysql php php-mysql
This will install the necessary packages to get Invision board (and of course most other websites) working
3. Type:
service httpd start
This will start the Apache 2 http server. At this point you should be able to visit your Linode in a web browser and be presented with the Fedora test page. If not, check that you haven't enabled any form of firewall and access to port 80 is available. At this point, you can place your website in /var/www/html/ if you want to.
4. Type:
service mysqld start
This will start the MySQL server. Check that it's running along with apache by typing
ps uax to show a list of processes - don't worry if you see more than one 'instance' of mysql or apache!
5. Type
mysql to access the MySQL monitor. You need to create a database and username/password for Invisionboard to use. We will call the database and username both db1.
6. In the MySQL monitor, type
create database db1;
7. Then type
use db1; to switch to the database and confirm it exists
8. Create a new username/password with the following commands:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO db1@localhost and then
IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
9. Your MySQL editing should now be done! Type
quit to leave the MySQL interface.
10. To create a new folder in your web directory, switch to it using
cd /var/www/html and type
mkdir forums where forums is the name of the folder.
11. Download Invisionboard from
www.invisionboard.com in tar.gz forum. Upload this somewhere and use
wget to download it to your Linode.
12. Type
tar zxvf 1p3Final[1].tar.gz to extract the forum files
13. Then, move the forum files to the folder you created using:
mv 1p3Final/upload/* forums/
14. Load up the forum installation page in your browser, eg.
www.yourdomain.com/forums/sm_install.php (sm_install.php is the file you must load to install the forums)
15. Enter all the details as prompted
In this case the location of the SQL server is localhost (as prompted) and the username/database name are db1, and the password is password. You do not need to enter any forum tables.
16. Click Continue a few times, and you're done!
17. To get both httpd and mysqld to start when you reboot your Linode, type:
chkconfig httpd on and
chkconfig mysqld on (thanks caker!)
Please note that this is a *very* basic guide - barely anything at all is customised or hardened, so you may want to Google for how to secure Apache and MySQL. For example:
The MySQL server will be listening to requests from all IPs. If you will only be accessing SQL databases from the local machine, it is best to change this (for example, Invision boards only access the database from the local machine) in the interest of security. Type
nano -w /etc/my.cnf to bring up the small configuration of the MySQL server. Under [mysqld], place the line
skip-networking and then exit nano using
Ctrl-X saving the changes. Typing
service mysqld restart will restart MySQL and stop it from listening to requests from other IP addresses.
However, it does the job and I hope it helps those who want a quick and easy setup template which is easily customised.
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