Make sure that Apache, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB are installed. For mysql, you will likely need to add the following to your my.cnf file
sql_mode = STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
First thing you should do before installing is to configure the forum by creating a config/config.php file. You may want to copy the contents of config/default_config.php into the file first to make things easier. At a minimum you should set the following values:
Once you have set those variables, and you have created a new empty database (dbName), then you are ready to start installing the forum.
Before installing the forum, you will need to first install some symfony libraries. To do this, cd into the symfony/ directory and then run the install.sh script:
$ cd symfony/
$ ./install.sh
You should also install some other system packages like pdftk, php-mbstring, php-mcrypt. The Forum also uses APC (Alternative PHP Cache) as an opcode and general cache to improve the performance. It isn’t required, but for larger installations can make a big difference (PHP 5.x only).
Once the symfony libraries are installed, you can begin to install the forum. To install the forum, you should first cd into maintenance/install, then run install.php.
$ cd maintenance/install
$ php install.php
This will initialize the database with all the necessary tables, and will ask you several questions about the installation, like setting up the Admin user, but will also ask you whether or not to import data from several csv files if they exist. These files are in the following formats:
provinces.csv
name, color
universities.csv
name, province, latitude, longitude, order, default
people.csv
lastName, firstName, role, website, university, department, title, email
themes.csv
acronym, name, description, phase
projects.csv
acronym, theme, title, status, type, description, problem, solution, projectLeader, projectCoLeader, phase, bigBet
project_members.csv
userName, projectName