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There isn't an obvious security issue with the script, but it is best practice to create the user & run it with sudo.

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    TorchPE
    I use this script by @webeindustry
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webeindustry/flarumvpsinstallscript/patch-1/script

    Example install from fresh Ubuntu.

    sudo apt-get install wget 
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webeindustry/flarumvpsinstallscript/patch-1/script

sudo chmod +x script
sudo ./script

    This is the xteenth time I have suggested this. Hence why it's important to use this forums search feature and google.

        0E800 When I wrote that script, it was intended to be a harsh "get it working and flee" type of script.
        That is, after running it once you probably should not run it again. It definitely doesn't know how to clean up after itself should you want to remove a site and there's no way to set up a site without installing everything it doesn't need.. etc. Of course prior to this, a install script did not exist.
        @webeindustry improved on it, but the whole structure is poor (my fault again)

        I consider the flarum management script to be replacement for it and allows for many other things to happen (installing, removing, ssl on-demand, etc) as well as separating functions (you don't need to install everything after the first time, so no reason to re-run that part). It's also much easier to add extra features and support for other OS's.

        0E800 This is the xteenth time I have suggested this. Hence why it's important to use this forums search feature and google.

        True, but things do become out-dated, even if currently functional ?

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            Aesahaettr unfortunately you can no longer just upload and unzip

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                15 days later

                I suggest vultr, you get exactly what is available at Digital Ocean at half the price. The $5/month plan gives you 1gb ram❕

                Please note : I am in the no way related to vultr, just making my recommendations.

                @Chope I use vultr as well now, their API is beautiful and you can't beat that pricing!

                Do note though that the $2.50 deal will become available after purchasing a $5 package, it's weird.

                LEOcean1 thanks for that, do you have something like that for Nginx? I think it will also be beneficial to many people out there.

                    Ralkage
                    Looks great and I've used it but I don't like how it installs nginx.
                    The 'sudo service nginx restart' returns nothing.
                    I know there are other old ways of restarting nginx but....

                        Chope Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

                        Interesting, I just now spun up a instance of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on DO and ran it, it works fine?

                        ./flarum_management -if ipaddr

                        As for The 'sudo service nginx restart' returns nothing. - it's not supposed to.
                        It kills the current nginx and starts it anew. You can see this with ps -fC nginx

                        user@ubuntu-1gb-sfo2-01:~$ ps -fC nginx
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root     13958     1  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/
www-data 13959 13958  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
user@ubuntu-1gb-sfo2-01:~$ sudo service nginx restart
user@ubuntu-1gb-sfo2-01:~$ ps -fC nginx
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root     13980     1  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/
www-data 13981 13980  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process

                        After running, the kernel killed the master and worker (13958 and 13959) and started new ones assigned to 13980 and 13981.

                        In any case, you are free to:

                        By doing either of the above, we will be able to keep this thread on topic ?

                          ok, I am just worried why it wasn't showing 'server restarting ...' like other versions.

                          I am curious since it's now showing anything, how will you know when you have an error as a result of bad server configuration?

                            Chope I am curious since it's now showing anything, how will you know when you have an error

                            A successful restart yields no message but a error certainly will.
                            My script runs with set -e, so any unexpected failures will cause the script to immediately stop.

                            Additionally, every call to nginx to reload or restart calls either nginx -t or service nginx configtest. If that runs successfully, it will then restart it.
                            This helps prevent downtime by checking for issues prior to loading the config.

                            why it wasn't showing 'server restarting

                            It would not be hard to echo out such a statement, however there are cases where it is needed to restart it more then once during the install (automatically configuring ssl is a good example)

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                              I'll try tutorial. This is more understandable as compared to that being placed in the installation page.