In this guide, we will show you how to install Boonex Dolphin 7 on an Ubuntu Cloud VPS.
Boonex Dolphin is a popular social networking platform and web application designed for you to create easy-to-use community and social media oriented websites. With dolphin, you can create small-scale social networks, a community page, or a social club for any topic you wish. Additionally, thanks to its user friendly interface and excellent customizability all through the web interface, you won’t need to know how to program or design websites to get up and running with Dolphin. Let’s get started with the installation.
Redmine is an open source project management web app and issue tracking tool based on Ruby on Rails framework that allows users to manage projects flexibly while offering robust monitoring tools and a broad library of plug-ins. This free and open-source solution offers an alternative to management tools. We can track multiple projects in one installation, it has an integrated support for news, document management, file management, a support wiki, forum, calendars, and so on making it a very versatile platform. Let’s begin with the installation.
It is quite simple to install a Django development environment on Linux, and Debian makes it that much more simple. You can go with two different methods of installation: the virtualenv way, and the Debian way. The virtualenv way keeps all Python packages, including Django, installed with it contained, and that allows multiple installations with different packages and their versions. For installation and management of Django the Debian way uses 
DokuWiki is a free and open source lightweight wiki software platform. What makes it different from other similar wiki applications is that DokuWiki works without the need for a database. Instead, it stores its data in PHP data-files, which makes it pretty fast and simpler to set up. The installation is pretty easy and it should take no longer than 10 minutes, so let’s get started.
A VPN (short for Virtual Private Network) allows you to connect securely to the internet, a public network (such as free wifi at the airport), or any other public area. VPN also allows users to share data remotely through public networks. VPN is also often required in order to be able to access your corporate or office or home server resources. You can bypass filters and unblock location-restricted websites with a VPN.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store primarily used as a database and cache. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, hyper logs, bitmaps, and spatial indexes. The Redis package that is included in the default CentOS repositories is pretty outdated, so installing from the source code will ensure that we have the latest version of Redis installed on our system. Let’s begin with the installation.
MariaDB is a free and open-source, backwards-compatible, enhanced and drop-in replacement of the popular MySQL database management server software. It is very fast, stable, and scalable, making this database server ideal for almost everyone, which is why it’s one of the most used database servers in the world. Let’s get started with the installation.
Boonex Dolphin is a popular social networking platform and web application that allows you to create easy-to-use community and social media oriented websites. It’s open-source, and thanks to its design and customization-oriented nature, you can make your site unique to suit your ideas. Let’s get started with the installation.
Yarn is a Javascript package manager, serving as an alternative to NPM. It is an open-source project and was built by a team at Facebook. There are many advantages when using Yarn, such as:
SQLite is a software library that provides a relational database management system (RDBMS). It can work as a database engine for small sized websites as well as large websites and projects, and it comes with a lot of useful features. The maximum size of a SQLite database is about 140 terabytes, making it future proof as well. Used by millions of users around the world, including some of the well-known companies such as Google, Facebook, Adobe, Microsoft and others, it is the most widely deployed database engine. Let’s begin with the installation.