no answer from blue host to the second question however they did acknowledge the first and I have an install however I'm stuck with the directory structure in Flarum and Index.php files which I cannot get to work.
I installed the forum with the composer command into mydomain.com/forum taking everything out of the public folder into the forum folder, I uncomment the lines 9 to 14 in .htaccess file but it's still showing a blank white page. my directory structure is /public_html/forum/ and have the following
'base' => __DIR__.'/forum',
'public' => __DIR__.'/forum',
'storage' => __DIR__.'/forum/storage',
but it's not working, can anybody help me with this thank you.