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Online Learning Appliance Suite: phpBB component

The phpBB forum package as part of my online learning suite. Used for teacher/student and student/student collaboration

Description

phpBB

A standalone Virtual Appliance and/or part of the Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS)

by Farren Constable, May 24, 2006

As part of my OLAS, I wanted a powerful bulletin board system. Both Moodle and ILIAS have simple BBS's built in, but I prefer to have the power and features of something like phpBB. This gives the students a great place to interact with each other and with the teacher. The following, from the phpBB web site, describes the product well:

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phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.
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While this phpBB server could very easily stand alone and be extremely useful, I consider it to be one component of my Online Learning Appliance Suite (OLAS). Please read the "Online Learning Appliance Suite info.txt" file for more information.

Full documentation, additional information, news, etc., is available at http://www.phpbb.com.

This phpBB Server is built on Open SuSE 10.1 from opensuse.org.
The phpBB product is version 2.0.20 from www.phpbb.com.

The root password is 'teach'.
There is one user account named 'teacher' with a password of 'password'.
There is NO GUI installed for this server to keep it lean.
The network is configured to obtain a DHCP address.
YAST is installed and is how I did most of the configuration of the Linux system, including Apahce.
Once the server is up, you can access the phpBB server by pointing a web browser to: http://server-ip-address/.
There is a default phpBB user account of 'admin' with a password of 'teach'.
The mySQL root password is also 'teach'.

Simply power up the VM, and once it is at a login prompt, you are ready to connect with a browser at http://server-ip-address/. You may need to log in a root and run the 'ifconfig' command to find out what IP address the VM was given from your DHCP server. Then, point your browser to that IP address as described above.

Enjoy!

Last updated: 06/05/2006

Operating system: Open SuSE 10.1

Applications installed:
phpBB version 2.0.20 from www.phpbb.com

VMware Tools installed: Yes

Size: 418 MB
Torrent available: Yes
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Primary account
Username: root
Password: teach

Submitted by: Farren

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