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Setup Vanilla Forums

Installation

The Vanilla Forums will be available at http://<your_docker_machine_ip> by default.

1.Open your browser and go to Vanilla Forums.

2.You should see Vanilla Forums setup wizard. Vanilla Forums Installer will create a database and an admin account. You should type the next values:

  • Database Host - mysql-local
  • Database Name - a value of MYSQL_DATABASE from mysql.env
  • Database User - root
  • Database Password - a value of MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD from mysql.env
  • Use Vanilla's .htaccess - selected by default.

Type other fields. Click on the Continue button to complete the installation.

Vanilla Forums Wizard

3.The 'Getting started' page should be displayed. You have successfully installed Vanilla Forums.

Getting Started page

Configuration

Enabling Addons

1.Go to your Dashboard, then Settings, and select Addons at the bottom of the list on the left hand side panel. Navigate to the addons list and click Enable next to the plugin. Enabling the addon immediately makes it active and available.

Vanilla Addons

2.After enabling some plugins will have a Settings 3-strip button that appear next to them in the Addons list.

Addon Settings

Disabling Addons

  1. Disabling an addon will remove whatever features it added, but it never destroys the data associated with it.

Know Issues

  1. 'The specified data type (int unsigned) is not accepted for the MySQL database'. The error happens when User enters an invalid email and clicks on 'Continue'.
    Execute docker-compose down and docker-compose up --build. Then follow installation steps again.