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IVLE phpBB3 integration
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IVLE has an optional forum, an integrated instance of phpBB3.
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It is not installed by default, so this document describes how to do it.
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These instructions assume that you already have a working IVLE instance on the
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phpBB requires PHP and a database driver to run. If on a Debian system, install
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the 'php5' and 'php5-pgsql' packages.
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You will first need to grab a copy of phpBB3. Extract it somewhere, and make it
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visible under the IVLE domain. Make sure that you do not conflict with any
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existing URLs, by using a directory like 'phpbb3'. A directive in your IVLE
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Apache virtual host like this should work:
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Alias /phpbb3 /local/path/to/phpBB3
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phpBB uses a different database. We will use PostgreSQL here, but IVLE does not
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care which you use, as long as phpBB supports it. Create a database:
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sudo -u postgres createdb -E UTF-8 ivle_forum
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Point your web browser at the phpBB URL, and follow the installation procedure.
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Once it is installed and working, we need to apply some IVLE-specific patches
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to achieve authentication integration:
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patch -p1 -d /local/path/to/phpBB3 < ivle/webapp/forum/phpbb3.diff
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chown -R www-data: /local/path/to/phpBB3
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Choose a secure password with which to sign authentication cookies. Put it in
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$ivle_secret in phpBB3/config.php.
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To configure the IVLE side of things, create a new file at
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/etc/ivle/plugins.d/forum.conf. In it put the following:
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[ivle.webapp.forum#Plugin]
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base = phpbb3 # Assuming that you used the same Alias line.
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secret = <FORUM SECRET> # Replace this with your chosen secret.
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You should now be able to click on the Forum tab in IVLE and be automatically