Any ETA for a Composer-free installation?

calande

Hello,

I'm using a basic 1and1 shared hosting account, with no SSH access. I was wondering when Flarum will have an alternative means of installation, something more traditional.
Thank you for this nice software.
Kind regards,

Charles.

jordanjay29

calande While we recognize that there are people on shared hosting that want to use Flarum, our current focus is on developing Flarum and getting it to a stable version (our goal right now is 0.1.0 stable). You can see our full roadmap here which includes improving the installation process for 0.2.

That said, I encourage you to try the Pockethold installer that one of our community members has developed for use on shared hosts. It's not guaranteed to work on all shared hosts, but if it does it should give you a working Flarum installation.

Failing that, I'd direct you towards the numerous hosts our community members have posted about in the Resources tag. Some of them even offer their services for free.

arda

Hi Charles,

Thank you for posting to the community. I would be happy to help you regarding your issue.

Note: As of 0.1.0-beta.3, Flarum utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies and extensions. This means that Flarum cannot be installed on hosts without SSH (command-line) access. Rest assured that we are planning to address this in the future and make sure that Flarum is accessible to everyone. In the meantime, if you want to run Flarum, you will need to find a host that permits SSH access.

According to Flarum's website, after Beta 3, they started using composer, the php package management software. Since then, you can't use or install Flarum without shell access.

There may be another way of doing it (if someone did find a solution to it) but official ways don't give any ways of installing Flarum without shell access.

calande

Thank you Jordan for the tips! I'll look into it ?