SimpleMachines provides an easy to use forum with many powerful features for you as well as your users. It features a powerful Package Manager, allowing you to quickly apply any of the hundreds of modifications in our database, as well as a variety of custom themes that change the way your site looks.
This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:
SimpleMachines configurations:
Simple Machines Forum 2.1.7 is installed from a pinned and verified official upstream source archive to /var/www/simplemachines. It includes the official upstream session-login correction merged for SMF 2.1.8.
Security note: Updates to SimpleMachines may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically.
Run
simplemachines-update --checkto discover the latest stable upstream release before planning a supervised update.
SSL support out of the box.
Adminer administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP, MySQL and Postfix.
- Webmin, SSH, MySQL: username root
- Adminer: username adminer
- SimpleMachines: username admin