How to setup OSSN on ubuntu.md

Update the system

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

Install LAMP

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.0 mariadb-server php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-gd
php7.0-json php7.0-opcache php7.0-xml mcrypt php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-cgi php7.0-json php7-0-zip

Download Open Source Social Network(OSSN)

wget https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/download_ossn/latest/build.zip
sudo unzip build.zip -d /var/www/html
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ossn

Configure database for OSSN

sudo mysql_secure_installation
sudo mysql -u root -p
SET GLOBAL sql_mode='';
CREATE DATABASE ossndb;
CREATE USER 'ossnuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password-here';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ossndb.* TO 'ossnuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
\q

Configure Apache for OSSN

cd /etc/apache2/site-available
sudo cp 000-default.conf ossn.conf

sudo vim ossn.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ossn/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/ossn/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/ossn_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/ossn_custom_log common
</VirtualHost>

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite ossn.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Configure php.ini

sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
  allow_url_fopen = On
  file_uploads = On
  upload_max_filesize = 32M

Create directory to save all ossn data

sudo mkdir /var/www/ossn_data sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ossn_data

Finish the installation in web browser

visit http://localhost or your ip address http://192.168.1.101

It can be now installed using APT

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arsalanshah/opensource-socialnetwork
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opensource-socialnetwork