Vanilla Forum OSS

[LoudLemur]

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/155-local-setup-quickstart

Vanilla forum has lots of interactive features and is highly customizable. There is a commercial edition which helps fund the project. Perhaps one good reason to use it is low memory requirements.

There is a Docker image available.

[JLX89]

@loudlemur If you want a quick workaround, this runs well in the Cloudron LAMP Stack also and is extremely easy to install.

[timconsidine]

@jlx89 : well spotted. I tend to look first for Docker packages also, and often overlook that it can be in my Cloudron estate today without waiting for a specific package of it.

[murgero]

@jlx89 Yep virtually any php or nodejs project can run in the LAMP app.

[timconsidine]

@murgero : I did try one but it required me to run npm install during setup. i could not do this www-data or cloudron and while root did run, it gave lots of non-writeable errors.

Any ideas how to resolve this ?

[murgero]

@timconsidine for www-data I believe you need to run it from it's full path, otherwise run as root and chown -R the modules dir. (ignore non-writable /root errors, this is normal with a read-only FS)

[timconsidine]

@murgero thank you, good advice, will try it out