help with public paths

bobw

Hi, this is my first time trying to setup Flarum and I think I need some help with the paths. I'm attempting to use the following structure:

server
├── public_html
│   └── index.php
└── flarum
    ├── storage
    ├── vendor
    └── flarum (executable)

<!-- public_html/index.php -->
require '../flarum/vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__,
'storage' => __DIR__.'/../flarum/storage',

<!-- flarum/flarum (executable) -->
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__.'/../public_html',
'storage' => __DIR__.'storage',

I'm getting the following error:
File not found at path: /home/website/public_html/vendor/flarum/core/less/common/variables.less

Any ideas? Thanks!

Victor12

bobw You can try this:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

<!-- public_html/index.php -->
require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__,
'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',

<!-- flarum/flarum (executable) -->
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__.'/public',
'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',

Play around with these, just make sure you get rid of the ../ in front of the paths.

Kurtis

Victor12

I did as you do, and this is my index.php detail:

<?php $site = require '/home/customer/www/mydomain.com/flarum/site.php'; $server = new Flarum\Http\Server($site); $server->listen(); require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php'; 'base' => __DIR__, 'public' => __DIR__, 'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',
-------------
After I did this, I got a warning:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW) in /home/customer/www/mydomain.com/public_html/index.php on line 29

line 29 is 'base' => __DIR__,

I am very confused about
'base' => __DIR__, 'public' => __DIR__,

I don't know what base mean, and I don't how to set these two lines, especially after I move the content of public to public_html.

should I add

require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php'; 'base' => __DIR__, 'public' => __DIR__, 'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',

to the end of both index.php and flarum?

Thank you!

bobw

Thanks for the reply. Wouldn't I need the /../ to move from index.php to the flarum directory above public_html?

Victor12

Not an expert here. I just had the same paths issue and removing../ fixed it.

bobw

🙂 Ok, thanks, will see what I can do.

luceos

On mobile so can't use code. But base is the flarum directory. From index.php that would be ../flarum

lance91

luceos Hello, and thanks for your hard work! this is the best forum I have seen.
my site layout is like below
https://sub.name.com/support/

I am trying to load the site to support
i change the following to
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

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

for both index.php and the flarum
and move all the files inside the public to support
but can't seen it to get it to work

thanks for your help everyone

luceos

Kurtis there's code missing, the base, public, and storage are part of an array. Copy the original index.php back and replace those same entries/lines only.

Kurtis

luceos
Below is my index.php detail, and I got a warning for line 29
'base' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum',
Warning:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW) in /home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html/index.php on line 29

---------Index.php Start-----
<?php

This file is part of Flarum.
*
For detailed copyright and license information, please view the
LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.
*/

$site = require '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum/site.php';

/*
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Accept incoming HTTP requests
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Every HTTP request pointed to the web server that cannot be served by simply
| responding with one of the files in the "public" directory will be sent to
| this file. Now is the time to boot up Flarum's internal HTTP server, which
| will try its best to interpret the request and return the appropriate
| response, which could be a JSON document (for API responses) or a lot of HTML.
|
*/

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server($site);
$server->listen();

require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum',
'public' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html',
'storage' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum/storage',
---------Index.php End-----

luceos

Kurtis you've added code to this index.php, you need to modify /home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum/site.php instead. I think this has to be updated in our docs..

Kurtis

luceos
Thank you!

My problem is, I added codes as suggested, but I got error warning.
Especially for the code 'base' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum',

So I need help to make sure, whether I added it correctly or not?

I saw somebody in previous posts just add

require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php';
'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__,
'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',

I am a beginner, I under stand 'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',
But I don't understand

'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__,

since I already moved all files from public folder to public_html folder, does 'public' => __DIR__, still necessary, if neccessory, will 'public' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html', be correct?

And what 'base' => __DIR__, stands for? How should I modify it?

I really want to use flarum.

Many thanks!

Kurtis

Hi everyone, I finally solved this problem in an easy way, and published a post here, provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to solve this public path issue, wish this works for you all.
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23105-most-simple-tutorial-how-to-install-flarum-without-public-paths