Installation instructions for Plesk panel

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How to install MentionBB with Git on Plesk panel and Nginx settings.

Hosting settings

• Document Root should be httpdocs/public. Mention uses public path as the main directory, if you specify root directory there are sensitive files in this section. It should be public.

PHP settings

• You can choose the latest PHP version. MentionBB takes a very sensitive approach in this regard, we build according to the latest technologies.
• FPM application served by Nginx should be selected for Nginx.

Apache & Nginx settings

• Disabled Proxy Mode

Additional nginx directives

location / {
	try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}

location ~ ^/index\.php(/|$) {
	if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
		add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
		add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS' always;
		add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization,DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range' always;
		add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000 always;
		add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' always;
		add_header 'Content-Length' 0 always;
		return 204;
	}
	add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
	add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS' always;
	add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization,DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range' always;
	add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range' always;

	fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
	fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
	include fastcgi_params;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
	fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
	internal;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
	return 404;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
	log_not_found off;
	access_log off;
}

include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
include /var/www/vhosts/mentionbb.com/httpdocs/.nginx.conf;

You need to edit the code in the last line.

include /var/www/vhosts/mentionbb.com/httpdocs/.nginx.conf;

You should edit the mentionbb.com part according to your own virtual host path.

Git

• Repository name is your choice
• Repo Url is https://github.com/mentionbb/mentionbb.git

Composer

• Then you need set Mode to Developer Mode.

• And click Install.

Or

• Go to src folder.
• Simply extract vendor.zip same directory.

After this step, you should import the db.sql file in the root directory and write the information in .env.example and then rename to .env.

Or Command-line

php bin/console mention:install-db [--dbadapter DBADAPTER] [--user USER] [--password PASSWORD] [--dbname DBNAME] [--dbhost DBHOST]

*Excluding square brackets