forum/public? Why not just /forum ?

Kurtis

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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