How To Install Discuz X3.2 on the One-Click LEMP Application

Introduction

Discuz is Internet forum software written in PHP and developed by Comsenz Inc., which supports MySQL databases. It is the most popular Internet forum program used in China.

In this article, We will show you how to install Discuz on a Vultr server based on the One-Click LEMP application. Actually it is very straight forward.

At present Discuz 3.2 is latest stable version

Prerequisites

We assume that you have deployed a One-Click LEMP Vultr server instance from scratch and have logged in as root.

Download and Decompress Discuz 3.2

cd
wget http://download2.comsenz.com/DiscuzX/3.2/Discuz_X3.2_SC_UTF8.zip  
unzip Discuz_X3.2_SC_UTF8.zip 

/usr/share/nginx/html is default www root document path of Nginx

cd Discuz_X3.2_SC_UTF8
cp -r upload /usr/share/nginx/html/

before installation, you need to change files permission and ownership.

chown -R ngnix:ngnix /usr/share/nginx/html
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/nginx/html/config
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/nginx/html/data
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/nginx/html/config
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/nginx/html/uc_client
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/nginx/html/uc_server

Installation

Discuz installation is doing from web browser, open you browser and enter http://your_ip/install/, follow guide to finish your installation. it is very straight forward and easy.

During installation, you will be asked MySQL root password.

By default, the MySQL root password is saved on the VPS in /root/.my.cnf. Make it display on the screen with the following command:

cat /root/.my.cnf