seemed like i got all the pre-reqs done... after it went through, just have a white screen now
out put from /var/log/nginx/error.log
2018/04/12 21:27:41 [error] 1562#1562: *16 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Notice: Undefined property: DOMDocument::$documentElement in /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 1451
PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 2 passed to s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator\Helpers\TemplateForensics::evaluate() must be an instance of DOMElement, null given, called in /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 1451 and defined in /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php:1546
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php(1451): s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator\Helpers\TemplateForensics->evaluate('//text()[normal...', NULL)
#1 /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php(1348): s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator\Helpers\TemplateForensics->analyseRootNodes()
#2 /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php(6229): s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator\Helpers\TemplateForensics->construct('<br/>')
#3 /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php(8871): s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator\RulesGenerators\EnforceContentModels->construct()
#4 /var/www/forum/vendor/s9e/t" while reading response header from upstream, client: 12.208.165.141, server: , request: "GET /forum/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock:", host: "23.253.242.116"