forum/public? Why not just /forum ?

tankerkiller125

I greatly prefer the current method of public folders like what Laravel uses, it's easy to set up and is just a matter of setting the web root to the correct place. The Old school method is insecure can requires a massive amount of configuration on the web server side to protect sensitive files. And the remote way does work but it seems like theirs more setup than what should really be required. Flarum should be in my opinion a download and run program, which in its current Beta 8 form is exactly what it is.

Frink

tankerkiller125 my thoughts as well. Pretty much any modern Laravel application serves from the /public directory, and it's honestly quite simple to set up.

Kurtis

clarkwinkelmann Then use the "Customizing paths" instructions to change the paths in index.php to point to that folder out of the webroot. You can use relative paths ('storage' => DIR.'/../../flarum/storage',) or absolute paths to achieve it ('storage' => '/var/www/my-website/flarum/storage',). Don't forget to also update require '../vendor/autoload.php'; to also point to the place where the vendor folder now is.

I have not tested this option but it seems perfectly possible. It wasn't possible in beta 7 but in beta 8 with custom paths it should work as well as just removing the public folder.

@clarkwinkelmann
What do you mean when saying Don't forget to also update require '../vendor/autoload.php'? could you be more specific on this, I mean to both index.php and forum, what exact code should I add to? and where in the file should I add to?

I just got stuck here, after adding this snippet to index.php
require 'flarum/vendor/autoload.php'; 'base' => __DIR__, 'public' => __DIR__, 'storage' => __DIR__.'/flarum/storage',

I got a warning that
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=>' (T_DOUBLE_ARROW) in /home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html/index.php on line 29

and line 29 is just this script: 'base' => __DIR__,

should I changed something?

Thank you!

clarkwinkelmann

Kurtis I think you may have interpreted the instructions too literally. You should change the paths in the file to match those, not add those lines at the end of the file.

Basically each file references 4 paths: the Composer autoload file, the base path, the public path and the storage path. Just updates those 4 paths according to how you arranged your forum.

I don't recommend using that method if you are not familiar enough with your filesystem, relative paths and PHP files. Use either the default or the "customizing paths" instructions from the documentation.

Kurtis

clarkwinkelmann

Thank you very much for replying me.

Actually, I read most of the posts about this publicfolder questions, but still don't understand it. I am really eager to use flarum, so I want to figure it out.

Yes, I am a coding beginner, that's why I think it in a literal way.

As I asked for help in another thread,
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/17795-help-with-public-paths/10
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/17795-help-with-public-paths/12

I already updated those 4 paths according to how I arranged my forum.

For

The base path (I don't understand)
The public path (I don't understand)
Composer autoload file path (I understand)
The storage path (I understand)

I can understand 3 and 4, as/vendor/autoload.php is always under vendor folder, and storage folder is always stay under flarumfolder, as showed below.

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

The problem is I don't understand 1 and 2, here are main questions get me stuck.

What does base stands for? What should I change 'base' => __DIR__, to? And should put it in both index.php and forum? Does it matter if I put it just at the end of each file?
For public path, since I already moved all folders and files out of publicfolder to /domain.com/public_html folder, and deleted the empty publicfolder, does this code script 'public' => __DIR__, stil matters, should I changed it to be 'public' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html',？

I feel frustrated on this issue, I’ve been spent 2 days trying to solve it, it seems it should not be that difficult, but it made me go banana, I couldn't find a detailed solution on the web, and here on flarum official community, it is my only chance.

Let's take it further, the involved filed need to be changed accordingly might be:

- index.php
- flarum
- .htaccess
- site.php
- config.php

we just discussed index.php and flarum

Thank you again for guiding me.

clarkwinkelmann

Kurtis 1. base folder is the one that contains config.php, flarum(executable) and composer.json. In your case it's the folder named flarum. 2. Public folder is the one that contains index.php and assets. In your case, it's public_html.

There has been a change in Flarum beta 12. Now on new installations there's a site.php which is used so that base, public and storage can be defined in a single place instead of having to edit two files. Now the vendor path and site.php path are the only paths you need to edit in two places. All other paths can be edited in site.php only. site.php can be placed anywhere, but I would recommend placing it in the base folder.

Kurtis

clarkwinkelmann

Hi Clark, I am so happy to receive your reply, your explanation is very clear, and I finally solved this problem, and now I can visit my site from https://domain.com/

The solution is quite simple:

I only edited site.php file

original script:

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
 'base' => __DIR__,
'public' => __DIR__,
'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
]);

modified script:

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
    'base' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum',
    'public' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html',
    'storage' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/flarum/storage',
]);

but still there is a little problem, when I visit https://domain.com, it will soon redirect to https://domain.com//, yes, with two // at the end, do you know what might cause this?

Clark, I appreciate a lot for your help!

I think I might open a new thread and write a step-by-step tutorial to tell everybody about solving this problem, it is very simple.

clarkwinkelmann

Glad to hear it works!

Kurtis it will soon redirect to https://domain.com//,

Check the url in config.php is correct.

Flarum usually doesn't perform any redirect by default, so it might be due to some additional configuration you made in the .htaccess for example.

Kurtis

clarkwinkelmann

Awesome! Yes, it is because I edited the config.php before, make 'url' => 'http://domain.com/public', into 'url' => 'http://domain.com/', and now I make it into 'url' => 'http://domain.com', without a / at the end, then everything is fine, now it is http://domain.com

I am going to open a new thread as tutorial to this issue and mentioned our current thread, so that new user won't waste so much time as I did.

Thank you Clark! Very appreciated!

Kurtis

Hi everyone, I made 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

debynory

Help, I don't understand how to show my forum in /forum/ folder only, and not in /forum/public 🙁

I have installed from composer Flarum files in /forum/ folder.. and here ok.

Now, if I don't change settings, I go to mysite.com/forum/ and browser goes to mysite.com/forum/public.
I want hide public word.

I have tried:

htaccess:

  # Uncomment the following lines if you are not using a `public` directory
  # to prevent sensitive resources from being exposed.
  RewriteRule /\.git / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^auth\.json$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^composer\.(lock|json)$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^config.php$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^flarum$ / [F,L]
  RewriteRule ^storage/(.*)?$ / [F,L]
  # RewriteRule ^vendor/(.*)?$ / [F,L]

index.php:

$site = require '../forum/site.php';

site.php:

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
    'base' => __DIR__.'/forum',
    'public' => __DIR__,
    'storage' => __DIR__.'/forum/storage',
]);

But I have this result (mysite.com/forum), if I click on "public/" I have 500 error:

clarkwinkelmann

debynory these are the instructions to change from public-folder-structure to old-school-structure as I call it: https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#customizing-paths

debynory

clarkwinkelmann Sorry, I realized only now that I had to physically move all the files from /public folder to the main /forum folder:

Can I now delete /public folder in /forum?

clarkwinkelmann

debynory yes, once public is empty, you can remove it safely.

debynory

clarkwinkelmann When I want add a new extension with composer (for example composer require michaelbelgium/mybb-to-flarum), I go inside /forum folder with Putty and from there I launch the composer command?

clarkwinkelmann

debynory yes, composer commands are run in the folder that contains composer.json, composer.lock and vendor.

tofayel

SHC
After doing that I have got, 500
Internal Server Error

clarkwinkelmann

tofayel please retrieve the full error from your server log file. We can then split this into a new support discussion.

This discussion is only about the concept behind public folder and is not indented to be a guide. The commands written here might be out of date. The official instructions can be found in our documentation https://docs.flarum.org/install

tofayel

clarkwinkelmann
Your installation guide is not good. It's very hard guidelines for new flarum user. You should make more easily installation & path changing guidelines for new flarum user. Thanks.

wbntff

using /flarum for subdirectory and having another flarum (executable file) is confusing.
i have a wordpress running at my /public_html
so i installed flarum under /public_html/forums/
moved files inside /piblic_html/forums/public/ to one level above.
set the paths in setup.php
everything is working fine, except that when i click on a post date link
like this

i get /forums/forums/d/... (/forums twice in path)

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