NAME

Foorum::Manual::INSTALL - install Foorum

Steps

Database

MySQL and SQLite are supported with tests while PostgreSQL are still marked as EXPERIMENTAL.

MySQL

• mysql -uroot -p
• mysql> CREATE DATABASE foorum;
• mysql> CREATE DATABASE theschwartz;
• mysql> exit;
• mysql -uroot -p foorum < bin/db/foorum.sql
• mysql -uroot -p theschwartz < bin/db/theschwartz.sql

SQLite

Download sqlite3 from http://www.sqlite.org/download.html

• sqlite3 foorum.db
• sqlite> .read bin/db/foorum.sqlite.sql
• sqlite> .read bin/db/theschwartz.sqlite.sql
• sqlite> .quit

PostgreSQL (EXPERIMENTAL)

files are bin/db/foorum.pg.sql and bin/db/theschwartz.pg.sql

USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Perl

• perl bin/setup.pl
• perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make realclean;
• perl bin/foorum_server.pl

Apache Configure

• remember set Options -Index in $Foorum/root/upload, so that nobody can view /upload URL

$ vim Foorum/root/upload/.htaccess
Options -Indexes

SEE ALSO

Configure, TroubleShooting