500 after installation

TheyCallMeTojo

I have followed the instructions exactly, several times. Each time after installation I get a 500 error. Anyone want to TeamView and set this up for me? Show me what I'm doing wrong?

luceos

TheyCallMeTojo are you able to pass installation? Have you tried enabling debug, any errors in the storage/logs/flarum.log? What's your OS?

GlrnDaniss

TheyCallMeTojo Your 500 error might caused by the permission denied, you can see your apache error log, just chmod 775 in all of your html file, then the error will be gone.

TheyCallMeTojo

Ubuntu 18.10x64. Apache, MySQL. I just re-imaged the VPS and will start over. I'll post logs after I try this again.

TheyCallMeTojo

No errors in the flarum log. In Apache2's log is the following.

[Mon Jan 14 16:05:54.954633 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19614] [client 75.134.195.75:56678] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/public/../storage/sessions/D9dMxFy2KWtotSbnm8nOlEDV2tcVVXWFNK7xLgs9): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 122, referer: http://142.93.242.224/ [Mon Jan 14 16:06:32.617792 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19611] [client 75.134.195.75:56683] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/public/../storage/sessions/D9dMxFy2KWtotSbnm8nOlEDV2tcVVXWFNK7xLgs9): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 122, referer: http://142.93.242.224/ [Mon Jan 14 16:06:54.585916 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19613] [client 75.134.195.75:56689] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/public/../storage/sessions/D9dMxFy2KWtotSbnm8nOlEDV2tcVVXWFNK7xLgs9): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 122, referer: http://142.93.242.224/ [Mon Jan 14 16:07:33.511810 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19624] [client 75.134.195.75:56694] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/public/../storage/sessions/NkwpP0gkKKGyzrOfgDWa3eJdn2IbZ8OtEINtrRZS): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 122, referer: http://142.93.242.224/public/ [Mon Jan 14 16:07:33.870546 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19624] [client 75.134.195.75:56694] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/public/../storage/formatter/Renderer_8d9401eca742fa939e0eba0026ecf0e6bfa8d32f.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 5214, referer: http://142.93.242.224/public/ [Mon Jan 14 16:07:33.870602 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19624] [client 75.134.195.75:56694] PHP Warning: include(/var/www/html/public/../storage/formatter/Renderer_8d9401eca742fa939e0eba0026ecf0e6bfa8d32f.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 5217, referer: http://142.93.242.224/public/ [Mon Jan 14 16:07:33.870612 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 19624] [client 75.134.195.75:56694] PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening '/var/www/html/public/../storage/formatter/Renderer_8d9401eca742fa939e0eba0026ecf0e6bfa8d32f.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 5217, referer: http://142.93.242.224/public/ [Mon Jan 14 16:07:33.871435 2019] [php7:error] [pid 19624] [client 75.134.195.75:56694] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file "/var/www/html/public/../storage/logs/flarum-2019-01-14.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php:107\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/RotatingFileHandler.php(119): Monolog\\Handler\\StreamHandler->write(Array)\n#1 /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/AbstractProcessingHandler.php(39): Monolog\\Handler\\RotatingFileHandler->write(Array)\n#2 /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(344): Monolog\\Handler\\AbstractProcessingHandler->handle(Array)\n#3 /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(707): Monolog\\Logger->addRecord(400, Object(Error), Array)\n#4 /var/www/html/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Middleware/HandleErrorsWithView.php(87): Monolog\\Logger->error(Object(Error))\n#5 /var/www/html/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Middleware/HandleErrorsWithView.php(69): Flarum\\Http\\Midd in /var/www/html/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php on line 107, referer: http://142.93.242.224/public/

peopleinside

TheyCallMeTojo I am available to try to help you but no responsibility 🙂 made doing the installation from an external person can be sometime a risk. You can try how to contact me on my profile https://discuss.flarum.org/u/peopleinside

You can try to run the installation directly from SSH instead put database data on the web-browser.
php flarum install instead from installing the access data in the web browser.

TheyCallMeTojo

@peopleinside I am using SSH, not a browser. There's an obvious permissions error, I'm just not sure how to rectify it.

peopleinside

TheyCallMeTojo There is last final step where you can point to the flarum setup and choose username, insert database data, etc. Are you doing this step on the web browser or by the SSH with php flarum install?

Mabe some screenshot of the 500 error can help to understand better. My server is not Ubuntu but Centos, on my VPS i do not have encountered particular issues.

luceos

TheyCallMeTojo you need to chown the storage and assets directory to the web user. This most often is www-data but it can differ per os and Webserver installed.

TheyCallMeTojo

luceos, I've tried that. I just followed another tutorial to a "T". And still receive 500 error.

I'm ready to pay someone to set this up for me. Any takers?

peopleinside

TheyCallMeTojo As i told I am available if you want but no responsibility mine 🙂 you can find my blog on my flarum profile and you can try to contact me on live chat when is live. I can try to do a remote look for see if I can help you.

TheyCallMeTojo

I think I'm done trying. it's more complicated than it's worth. I've spun up dozens of VPS trying to get this working. I've tried Ubuntu 14, 16 and 18, PHP 7.1 and PHP 7.3. I've tried NginX and Apache. I've tried MySQL and MariaDB. I've followed numerous tutorials, that have been published recently. I've tried a Docker I found on GitHub. Something is certainly wrong.

peopleinside

TheyCallMeTojo I think is difficult help from here without see the issue. You can consider to create a video... This maybe can help us understand better. Is your first Flarum install? Maybe at the start need just understand how to do and how solve issue. You can consider also to test to install on local but in my case was more easy install the Beta 8.1 ona VOS than on local PC.

GlrnDaniss

peopleinside I have the same problem, could you mind help me? I can do remote meeting.

TheyCallMeTojo

I ended up purchasing a cheap Namecheap hosting account to test on, and it works 100%. I will do a video to show what I'm doing.

peopleinside

GlrnDaniss You can try to install instead by poiting the browser to the community address, use SSH command: php flarum install

GlrnDaniss

It shows install is not defined

peopleinside

GlrnDaniss maybe because you need reupload files and delete the database content?
I think after version 8.0 Flarum start to have issue on installing by brwoser... so if i need to installa new Flarum instance i use the SSH command

php flarum install

GlrnDaniss

ok no 500 error, then I got 404 error, in error log, it shows Illuminate\View\Engines\CompilerEngine->evaluatePath() /var/www/html/vendor/illuminate/view/Engines/CompilerEngine.php:59, in my last error log.

peopleinside

Maybe you need to specific to go on the public folder. Do you installed the community in a subdomain community.domain.,ext or domain.ext/community? Maybe this issue you are having (404 error) is related to not poiting correctly to the Flarum public folder.

https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#url-rewriting

GlrnDaniss

peopleinside Do you mean the url rewrite? in .httaccess file?, and set overwrite all? <Directory "/var/www/html/public">
AllowOverride All

</Directory>
I already add this in httpd.conf, because I use httpd, but still not working

peopleinside

Do you mean the url rewrite? in .httaccess file?, and set overwrite all? <Directory "/var/www/html/public">

GlrnDaniss When i talk about public directoy is a directory inside the flarum directory called public. See https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#url-rewriting

The Flarum installation is inside the html folder? In that folder all file are only of Flarum?
I see is difficoult for me set Apache to work in the public folder... has helped for me use the control panel than point community.domain.ext to the public folder of Flarum. This work well.. otherwise if my control panel don't let me point the domain on public I was unable to make Flarum work.

You maybe need some strong suggestion from someone on the Flarum community.