Installing Flarum on GoDaddy Hosting

wackyMole · 2015-12-02T09:53:13+00:00

Setting up Flarum on GoDaddy is roughly the same process, though there are a few caveats that you will need to take into consideration. Note: While the following process attempts to clarify some issues with GoDaddy specifically, it does not cover setting up your GoDaddy account or cPanel, nor will it cover domain registration or setting up DNS. That process is fairly straight forward and GoDaddy's customer service can help you with any issues you may have. Before you continue, please ensure that the following bullet points are true. You can successfully log into your cPanel dashboard. You can successfully navigate to the domain you have purchased and/or configured for this host. You should be able to navigate to the URL in your browser and see the default GoDaddy landing page. Once that is squared away, it's time to start installing Flarum. Change the PHP Version At the time of this writing, GoDaddy defaults to PHP 5.4. We'll need to change this setting to enable us to install and run Flarum. To do this, open your cPanel dashboard and scroll down to the "Software" section and click on "Select PHP version". On the new page, select 5.5 from the drop-down menu and then click on "Set as current". Note: Changing the version here, only affects the version used by Apache. You will still need to do the manual work-arounds below in order to get PHP 5.5 on the command line. Getting PHP 5.5 on the Command Line Changing the version as outlined above does not update anything on the command line. Here's how to fix that. Open up your favorite SSH client (E.G. PuTTY, Terminal on Mac or Linux) Here is where paths will diverge for a moment. PuTTY On Windows, you will likely be using PuTTY to connect. Enter your domain as the host and your GoDaddy username as the user. Note: If there is more than one user on the account, use the primary user's username. Then click connect. Terminal If you are on Mac or Linux, you will likely use Terminal to connect. Open a terminal window and type ssh username@your.domain.com where username is your GoDaddy username. Note: If there is more than one user on the account, use the primary user's username. Then press "Enter". All Together Now! When prompted for you password, enter the same password you would use to log into GoDaddy and press "Enter". Note: Make sure it's the password for the username you specified above. Once you are logged in we can get started on setting up the php command to use PHP 5.5. Start by typing php -v. If the version is anything other than 5.5 or higher, continue on. Otherwise, you can continue with the normal Flarum installation process. Finding PHP 5.5 It's out there somewhere... Usually you can find the PHP 5.5 executable at /opt/alt/php55/usr/bin/php. To test that, run /opt/alt/php55/usr/bin/php -v. This time you should see a version number beginning with 5.5. Lets tell Bash to use this executable for php. Edit your .bash_profile by typing cd followed by vim .bash_profile. In that file there is a line that says PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin. Change that line to say PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH and save the file and exit. Note: You can use whatever editor you like, it doesn't have to be vim. Next, type cd bin followed by ln -s /opt/alt/php55/usr/bin/php Exit your SSH session by typing exit and re-connect. Now when you run php -v you should see version 5.5 or higher, which means you can follow the normal Flarum Installation process.

Ahtesham1234

hunochma hi ,i just need to know that did you manage to install flarum on godaddy or not?

I want to install this on my godaddy wordpress, so knidly share with me the guide tutorials you used thx.

jordanjay29

Ahtesham1234 This discussion is the tutorial. Check the first post. The person you tagged asked about emails, which wackyMole didn't test. You can use an external provider, however, if you can't get GoDaddy's email to work. Mailgun is a popular one.

hunochma

Ahtesham1234 Yes I managed to install Flarum on GoDaddy by following the steps above.

I want to install this on my godaddy wordpress

Do you mean GoDaddy's Managed Wordpress solution? Managed Wordpress "do not provide access to a control panel". Do you have access to your domain through SSH?

I have a one of the Linux plans on which I have been able to install Flarum.

Moderocky

hunochma Did you fix your SMTP? If so can you tell me how please?

hunochma

Moderocky Nope. But PHP worked. Can you receive emails without using SMTP?

GoDaddy provides email services. I guess that is why they block their SMTP ports...

webeindustry

hunochma

SMTP is a protocol that uses standard port numbers. You'll want to try all the major ports for sending mail and see if they have them all blocked without using their service.

25, 465, 587. Try those 3.

ccsol

We are trying to install it on Godaddy Shared Hosting Linux Based.
Any one could show us way how to install?

jordanjay29

ccsol If you follow the steps in the tutorial in the first post, you should be able to get it installed.

hunochma

ccsol Happy to help if I can. Please post any questions.

ccsol

@jordanjay29 @hunochma thank you we have setup FLARUM on our domain and waiting eagerly to get a final ver so we can launch our website.

I don't know we can post our project url or no.

jordanjay29

ccsol if you follow our advertising guidelines, then you should be fine. There a Showcase tag under Resources that is the correct spot for showing off your Flarum.