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If you wish to install BOARD18 on a server, you will have to follow these manual instructions.
If you wish to install BOARD18 on a server, you will have to follow these manual instructions.
<p style="color: Green">To install BOARD18 you must 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.</p>
<p style="color: Green">To install BOARD18 you must 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.</p>
First, follow the instructions in [[How_To_Create_a_BOARD18_WEB_Site|this How To document]] to download BOARD18 and install it on your server.
Follow the instructions in [[How_To_Create_a_BOARD18_WEB_Site|this How To document]] to download BOARD18 and install it on your server.
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Then, follow the instructions in [[How_To_Create_a_BOARD18__Database|this How To document]] to create and load the MYSQL database for BOARD18.
The following developer guidelines may be of interest to you.
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Finally, the following developer guidelines may be of interest to you.


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Revision as of 20:04, 6 September 2013

Administrator Documentation

BOARD18 does not [yet] have any packaging or auto install facilities.
If you wish to install BOARD18 on a server, you will have to follow these manual instructions.

To install BOARD18 you must 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.

Follow the instructions in this How To document to download BOARD18 and install it on your server.
The following developer guidelines may be of interest to you.

Developer Guidelines

BOARD18 is a very small project. At the time of this writing only 10 people have contributed code, documentation or other work to BOARD18.
The testing community for BOARD18 consists of fewer than 20 people. Thus there is no formal structure to the project.
The creator and main designer/coder of BOARD18 is Rich Price. And he is also the owner of the project.
You can contact him by email at rich at board18.org.

Reporting Bugs

The BOARD18 project also has a BUGZILLA issue tracker at bugs.board18.org. This tool is used to track bugs, enhancement requests and other tasks.

BOARD18 Code Repositories

The BOARD18 project keeps its code repositories at Github.