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Developer Tooling
Stacks Supported PHP 7.2 - 7.4 (as of Vanilla 3.3) Unix, Windows, or OSX nginx, Apache, or IIS MySQL, Percona, or MariaDB Cloud Stack PHP 7.2 nginx Percona HAProxy memcached Zend OPcache Sphinx OpenStack Developer Tools git Docker xdebug PHPUnit Composer CodeSniffer Hub CircleCI CodeCov ChromaticQA Node 10.x Yarn PHP…
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Local Setup Quickstart
Vanilla has only 1 supported localhost installation configuration, Vanilla Docker. Vanilla Docker Vanilla Docker is a self-container docker-compose setup providing: PHP MySQL Nginx Memcached Sphinx XDebug Local SSO & Embedding Stubs Prerequisites Docker installed. Node 10.13.x installed. Yarn 1.15+ installed. Note for…
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Cloud Hosting
Vanilla Forums provides an official cloud hosting solution at vanillaforums.com with a 1-click install, automatic upgrades, amazing professional support, incredible scalability, integration assistance, theming and migration services, and exclusive features. For the very best Vanilla forum experience, you can skip the rest…
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Self Hosting Basics
The Basics Vanilla requires a server with PHP, MySQL, and web server software (like Apache or nginx). You’ll probably need to own a domain, and already have it configured on your server with DNS. You usually need to create a database for it via your hosting provider, often via phpMyAdmin. Then you’ll need to visit that…
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Upgrading
Overview Follow these steps to upgrade Vanilla when a new stable release is announced. These instructions assume you’re using SFTP to manually copy files to a server. Please consider using maintenance mode before running database updates if your database is very large (millions of users or comments). Backup your…