Install Development Copy
There are 2 main ways of installing MyBB 2.0, one being with Homestead and the latter running without it. This guide is split into several parts, covering Homestead, configuring your application, installing MyBB.
Homestead is an official Laravel development environment, a fully packaged Vagrant machine, to read more about Homestead and how to acquire it, please visit the official documentation
First we want to download the latest updates for our Homestead.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Next we want to install our essential packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Git should be included with your Homestead installation, however if for some reason it is not, please make sure it is installed with the following:
sudo apt-get install git
This command will clean up dependencies for packages that are no longer used.
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now that you have your development environment ready we can now proceed to configuring and installing MyBB.
You can use Laravels own web server by using the command php artisan serve
First up we need to clone the repository, if you are using Homestead you will be wanting to clone it under /home/vagrant/Code, if you are on WAMP or XAMPP cd into your appropriate directory.
Let's clone it
git clone https://github.com/mybb/mybb2.git
mv mybb2* .
Give write permissions to the /storage/ directory.
chmod -R 777 storage/
Install Composer dependencies.
composer install
In the default Homestead environment you can leave the .env untouched and everything will work right out of the box.
After you have run the above command for composer, there should be a .env file in your root directory, for those new to environment variables, this file contains variables specific to an environment, this file is never to be committed to Git under any circumstance, this is where you put in your passwords for your database, your API credentials etc, core configuration.
If you do not have an .env file, you may have an .env.example file. This can just be copied using the following command
cp .env.example .env
If there is no .env file then you may use the below template, simply copy and paste it into a file called .env.
APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
Note that these are not front end assets, these are package assets from dependencies installed via composer
Publish assets by packages
php artisan vendor:publish
Install migrations table and run migrations.
php artisan migrate:install
php artisan migrate
Add Debug Data (aka Seeds)
php artisan db:seed