How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site

How to create a BOARD18 web site using Linux

These instructions assume that you already have shell access to a server environment that is running Apache with PHP version 5.3 or later and MySQL version 5.5 or later. You first have to decide whether to create a new domain for the application or to put it on a sub directory of an existing domain. In the following instructions, the directory that you choose to use will be referred to as the "web root directory" regardless of whether it is "really" a root or not.

The work of setting up a domain is well documented and quite beyond the scope of this how to. So it will be assumed that this work has been done.

Perform these steps on your local Linux PC

Browse to the Download page and download the two zip files: board18.zip and utility.zip.
Using FTP, move these 2 zip files to your web server.

Perform these steps on your Linux web server

Extract board18.zip into your web root directory.
Create a utility directory in your user directory (~).
Extract utility.zip into this new directory.
Edit the BOARD18/php/config.php file.
1. Change DB_HOST only if your DB server is different from your web server.
2. Change DB_DATABASE to the name you will give to your BOARD18 database.
3. You can also change the database user ID and password if you want.
4. Save the edited file.
5. Make note of the above values for use when creating the database (see below).

Create the BOARD18 DataBase

The BOARD18 database must be created and loaded with game boxes before this web sit can be used.
See the How To Create a BOARD18 Database page for advice on performing this function.