phpBB 3.3.19-1

phpBB is a long-standing discussion forum: categories and forums of topics and posts, with registered users, groups, permissions, private messages, attachments, polls, search, moderation, styles and extensions. It replaces the phpBB that WD's old app store offered (long out of date). It runs natively on the NAS (no Docker) on the PHP app's PHP 8.5 (which it needs: install that first), and keeps its posts in the NAS's own MariaDB (WD's, or the MariaDB app's).

• Its address is https://phpbb.<domain>, through the Nginx app (added automatically - rename it there, e.g. to forum). With the Nginx app installed, phpBB is only reachable through it by default (it listens on the NAS itself only, 127.0.0.1:8089). Without the Nginx app (or with that setting off, on the page) it's also at http://<nas-ip>:8089 on the local network, over plain HTTP.
• The board is installed on its first start (phpBB's own installer, run by the app): English, its administrator admin with a password the app generates (shown on the management page, which can also change it - even after the name has been changed in phpBB), and no email until a mail server is set up in phpBB (Administration Control Panel, General, Email settings). People then register on the board; while there's no email, accounts that need activating are activated by an administrator.
• Its address is set at every start: the Nginx app's site when there is one, else the NAS's own address on port 8089 (phpBB makes its links from it) - restart phpBB after setting the Nginx app's domain. Its cookies are for that address only, and secure-only when it's only reachable over HTTPS.
• Its database: the app makes a login and a database of its own in MariaDB (both phpbb, utf8mb4, tables prefixed phpbb_; all rights on that database, none elsewhere), over MariaDB's socket. WD's MariaDB only runs when an app asks for it: the app starts it (the way WD's phpMyAdmin does) if it isn't running. At boot, if MariaDB isn't answering yet, phpBB waits for it (up to 5 minutes, in the background). After an update, its database is brought up to date at the next start (phpBB's own db:migrate).
• Its private folders are never served: PHP's web server runs it through the app's router, which refuses what phpBB's own .htaccess files and sample Nginx configuration protect (its settings, cache, attachments, uploaded avatars, backups and logs, code and packages).
• Extensions go in Nas_Prog/_phpbb/ext (e.g. ext/vendor/name/, copied there over SSH - see the OpenSSH app), then are enabled in the Administration Control Panel, Customise. Extra styles and language packs are part of the app's folder, which an update replaces - add them again after one. Not included: the VigLink extension phpBB's own packages have (it turns links in posts into affiliate links).
• Backups: every day at 03:45, one archive with its database (phpbb.sql, dumped while it runs), its attachments (files/), uploaded avatars (avatars/) and extensions (ext/), into Nas_Prog/_phpbb/backups (or a folder chosen on the page), keeping the newest 7. To restore one: stop phpBB, then

``sh mkdir /tmp/restore && tar -xzf phpbb-<date>.tar.gz -C /tmp/restore mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock -uroot phpbb < /tmp/restore/phpbb.sql cp -a /tmp/restore/files /tmp/restore/avatars /tmp/restore/ext /mnt/HD/HD_a2/Nas_Prog/_phpbb/ ``

and start it again.

• It runs as its own user (phpbb, ID 69), on PHP's own web server with 4 workers (enough for a family or a club; opcache on). Its data is kept in Nas_Prog/_phpbb, across reinstalls and removal: cache/, store/ (phpBB's own backups and logs), files/ and avatars/ are phpBB's own; its settings (conf/config.php, written by the app at every start), passwords and backups are root's. Its database stays in MariaDB when the app is removed (drop it there to start afresh: DROP DATABASE phpbb; DROP USER 'phpbb'@'localhost';, and delete Nas_Prog/_phpbb).
• Moving from WD's old phpBB (or another board): phpBB's converters and its update packages need its own installer, which the app keeps aside (install.dist) - the simplest route is a fresh board here.
• The app checks weekly for a new phpBB release in the 3.3 line (a NAS alert).
• It's phpBB's release tag (its source, checked by its SHA256 - phpBB's own download site refuses scripted downloads) with its PHP packages installed by Composer (exactly those in its composer.lock), as phpBB's own packages are made. phpBB is GPL-2.0 licensed. Intel models only.