[Vanilla](https://open.vanillaforums.com/) is a simple discussion forum written in PHP. Vanilla source code is publicly hosted on [Github](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla). This guide will walk you through the Vanilla installation process on a fresh FreeBSD 12 Vultr server instance using PHP, MariaDB as a database, and Nginx as a web server. Vanilla Forum recommended software stack: - PHP version 7.2 or greater with the following extensions: - `mbstring` - `curl` - `gd` - `PDO` - `mysqli......