https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRpQZhXb_PtCYfoMdfX8zGKegUlpNM6hsw7QnVEKjGrZyhSmIxonahQib9uWNnWwKIqcmVP3hUm7YgM/pub

Load that page instead of reading this doc, I just copied it here in case the google doc gets deleted.

-------------------------


The Brohoof forums were shut down in 2016, then later revived in a Virtualbox VM in 2018 and after just so people could take a look for nostalgia.

Of course you are free to modify anything, but this is how it is packaged now.
You need to install https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Then unzip the files and move it into wherever VMs are, there’s a “Virtualbox VMs” folder somewhere if you want to use default location. It might be right at the root of C:

The network is setup on "host only network" so it is only accessible from the PC you run it on. Your IP will be 10.69.69.1 and the VM will be 10.69.69.5.

Look at "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" and set the IP to 10.69.69.1 (mask 255.255.255.0) if it has no IP.
SSH is on default port, either SSH to it, or login over console.
root password: brohoof
All forum accounts also had their password changed to “brohoof”, you just have to figure out what their username is.

After you can confirm you can reach 10.69.69.5 over ssh or ping test, it's time to edit your hosts file so it diverts brohoof.kilorat.com to the VM.
Add this to your hosts file by starting notepad as administrator, then open
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
And add this line:

10.69.69.5	brohoof.kilorat.com

Then open up http://brohoof.kilorat.com:8880 in a browser.


Allowing others to access it

To make it work for others is difficult because the subdomain is manually configured in the templates, and you have to find each one. The search/replace feature in IPB doesn’t work for CSS, it took a long time to change brohoof.com to kilorat.com. But if you want to do it, change the network in virtualbox to “bridged” which makes it like a real PC on your network, then you can setup port forwarding on your router. I went with a non-default port in case you have another website, or your ISP blocks incoming port 80.