KiddoZhu / Tiny-BBS

A simple bulletin board system based on PHP and MySQL

Tiny BBS

A simple bulletin board system based on PHP and MySQL.

Features

• Login system
• Post and reply
• Permission Rules
• SQL injection free

Installation

1. Install Apache, PHP and MySQL.

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

MySQL will require a password for the root during the installation.

2. You may also install phpmyadmin if you want to visualize the database.

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /path/to/site

Choose apache2 as the web server, and enter your root password for MySQL.

3. Add the following lines to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf to configure the site.

DocumentRoot /path/to/site
<Directory /path/to/site/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

And restart your apache by

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

4. Modify utils/connect.php with your root password and your database name.

5. Reset the database through localhost/init.html in your browser.

Now you can enjoy Tiny BBS!