In today’s article we will install MyBB on a Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. MyBB is a very popular open source, intuitive and extensible forum software developed using PHP and MySQL. Installing MyBB on Ubuntu is simple task, just follow the steps bellow. Installing MyBB on Ubuntu 16.04, should not take more then 10 minutes.
MyBB, also known as MyBBoard or MyBulletinBoard, is very popular and free forum software developed using PHP and MySQL. This tutorial will help you install MyBB on a Linux virtual server.
This article assumes that Nginx is already set up and running with PHP 5.1 or newer via FastCGI. Also, MyBB forum requires a database for data storage, so you need to have MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite installed and running on your VPS.