Installing Flarum on AWS

MikeJones

0E800 no worries thanks again for the help! I am working on the domain name right now. Hopefully, in the morning you have a domain name to visit!

MikeJones

0E800 so close.... goign to keep playing with it but right now

http://18.208.25.157/

and

www.seekadventure.net

Both just show the basic nginx page

I am assuming I have to change the url in the: sudo vim /var/www/seekadventure.net/config.php

but I have tried everything from my elastic IP to www.seekadventure.net to seekadventure.net to http://www.seekadventure.net

None of those are working, looking for other ideas?

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MikeJones

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourforumname

Change server name from whatever it is to seekadventure.net

sudo nano /var/www/yourflarumname/config.php
change 'url' => 'http://seekadventure.net'

sudo systemctl restart nginx

See if that helps

MikeJones

0E800 So that seems to help.

Looks like seekadventure.net works but www.seekadventure.net does not

MikeJones

0E800 I also do not think its a cname records thing but it could be... Here is a screenshot:

0E800

MikeJones

Review:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/redirecting-non-www-to-www-in-nginx

0E800

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yoursitename

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name yourdomain.com;

    return 301 http://www.yourdomain.com$request_uri;
}

Restart nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

MikeJones

0E800 I tried all that and it didn't work. Then I tried to revert to what I had previously because just seekadventure.net worked and now that doesn't either lol

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MikeJones

Remember you also need to make the url change in /var/www/yoursitename/config.php to reflect what is in your Nginx config.

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MikeJones

Your good. I see your nginx default screen.

You just need to make change in flarum config.

seekadventure.net is being properly directed to www.seekadventure.net and nginx is working. Your flarum just is not turned on. So there is a issue with your nginx config or your flarum config.

MikeJones

0E800 So I did the www wrong, should look like this?

MikeJones

0E800 should the flarum config file just be http://www.seekadventure.net ? there are a lot of similar options right here, I guess I do not fully understand how these two config files work together.

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MikeJones

Thats what all the other images I found looked like, but it seems to be working as you had it before.

Like I said, I type in browser http://seekadventure.net and it takes me to http://www.seekadventure.net

I see the Nginx welcome page.

So everything server wise is working, but Nginx doesnt know to load Flarum, so we need to check your nginx config and your flarum config.

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MikeJones
I think it should be http://seekadventure.net because your are appending a www. to it.

Show me the server { part of your nginx config.

MikeJones

0E800 I will post both just so everythign is in synch

and

in the config php I have:

'url' => 'http://seekadventure.net',

0E800

Try adding return 301 http://www.seekadventure.net$request_uri; below server name

Like:

server {
  listen 80;
 
  root /var/www/seekadventure.net;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
 
  server_name seekadventure.net; 
return 301 http://www.seekadventure.net$request_uri;

MikeJones

0E800 didnt change anything.....

It looks like its just not pointing to the FLARUM index for some reason

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MikeJones
did you run sudo systemctl restart nginx after you made the change?
We will get this working, everything else is, just need figure where the disconnect is.

MikeJones

0E800 nope I did sudo service nginx restart

but after doing both still stuck on the nginx welcome

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MikeJones

Try changing the Flarum config to url => http://www.seekadventure.net

then run sudo php flarum cache:clear and sudo systemctl restart nginx

Edit: sorry, also try changing your Nginx server_name to www.seekadventure.net` and restart ngnix

MikeJones

0E800 so it didn't work and I tried a ctr-f5 for good measure and I got this:

www.seekadventure.net redirected you too many times.

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