A big mess after updating to Beta 8

Chris89

Followed all the instructions. Went through hours of errors, database issues, help from the hosting providers, other discussions here, etc. 03:47am and I finally updated to Beta 8. Now I'm getting core.lib.error.generic_message whenever I click on a button or try to do something. Was it really necessary to update the skeleton... it's so messy now, even a developer couldn't help me fix all these issues.

jordanjay29

Chris89 Was it really necessary to update the skeleton

Yes. These kinds of improvements make Flarum a stronger platform going forward. This is why we make them during the beta period.

Chris89 Now I'm getting core.lib.error.generic_message whenever I click on a button or try to do something.

In the browser console or the web page itself? What's in your flarum.log file?

Franz

Chris89 Was it really necessary to update the skeleton...

As others have said: yes. We're iterating here, trying to find the best setup that is incredibly flexible, but also easy to customize. Hence the beta. Upgrades will be seamless once we reach stable. That's why we are experimenting right now to find the best way forward that will guarantee that seamless experience.

Your feedback is valuable. Let's collect some ideas for improvements for the next beta in this ticket.

Chris89

jordanjay29 Fixed one problem, facing 10 more now. I tried reinstalling the whole system again. What I'm not understanding: when I set up a fresh Flarum skeleton and go to sitename.com/public, do I install it again with all the info Forum Title, MySQL Host, etc. and how to, when some tables already exist in the database. Excuse my dumb questions, but I'm so new to this. Trying to follow instructions.

And also, I would love to have everything in my /public_html directory not /public. The mess happens after moving these files and editing index.php and flarum, as it is described in the Installation guide. Already updated the paths to:

 'base' => __DIR__,
 'public' => __DIR__,
 'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',

Then copied config.php and assets from my old Flarum installation to the public_html directory.
What am I doing wrong?

010101

Chris89 No, you shouldn't need to re-input all of that. Are you remembering to move your old config.php file over? Also, are you using shared hosting? If so, the quickest way for me to get it working was to get rid of the public folder. This is mentioned in the install instructions... the public folder was added as a security best practice, but, you can do anyway with it, move all files in the public folder to your main folder, and to make it more secure, uncomment a few lines in the .htaccess file. None of this may be your problem, but I'm just mentioning what helped me get it installed.

https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#customizing-paths

Edit: Just saw your updates above. Sounds like you did what I just recommended. So, I'm not sure what's going on...

Chris89

010101 Could it be the .htaccess file? I don't see anything that needs to be changed there. Would you share your code?

010101

Chris89 I don't think it would be the .htaccess file, because I wouldn't think it is required to uncomment these lines, it's just recommended for security. But, either way, if you haven't done it yet, edit .htaccess and uncomment lines 9-14 in order to protect sensitive resources.

Chris89

010101 Just did that. What is the next step? Now I'm getting a black page when I open the site.

Kyrne

Chris89 would you mind sending me your config.php "URL" field as well as your webserver config?

Chris89

Kyrne Just got everything fixed. It was /vendor/autoload.php, instead of vendor/autoload.php. Everything seems to work now, after 11 hours. Only the Font Awesome icons won't show anywhere on the homepage or the admin panel.

Kyrne

Chris89 send me your config.php URL field, it likely has something to do with that.

Chris89

Kyrne

<?php return array (
  'debug' => false,
  'database' => 
  array (
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'database' => 'X',
    'username' => 'X',
    'password' => 'X',
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'port' => '3306',
    'strict' => false,
  ),
  'url' => 'https://sitename.com',
  'paths' => 
  array (
    'api' => 'api',
    'admin' => 'admin',
  ),
);

Not only font awesome icons, but can't see any icons.
https://i.imgur.com/9JG0udZ.png
That's the only problem I'm having atm.

Kyrne

Chris89 alright, thought you might have had /public in there. Double check that don't awesome is in the fonts folder in assets

Chris89

Kyrne It is there. Only thing I didn't do is copying the Assets folder from my original forum as it breaks the site.

Update: Copied Assets, cleared the cache. It works now, but still missing all icons.

luceos

Chris89 check this https://discuss.flarum.org/d/17783-missing-icons-images/9