Accessing Flarum from web browser.

DerangedHost

So far I've followed the installation guide while trying to install flarum on a AWS EC2 instance, I have Apache2, PHP5, mySQL5, and composer as well as flarum installed on the server. However, there is no guidelines as to where to put the flarum project, could you point me in the correct direction please? I can access the apache default webpage but cannot get to flarum install page. Thank you.

-Deranged

jordanjay29

Can you drop a simple php (or even HTML) page into the public_html or www folder and navigate to it on the web?

DerangedHost

The apache2 start page does work, can you be more specific on a simple html/php page and navigate to it?

VIRUXE

DerangedHost why don't you just drop it there? I did.
Just delete everything inside that folder and run the command there or just run it inside any folder you want.

Kulga

DerangedHost By default (at least on debian based), a apache2 install will utilize the /var/www/index.html file which you see to be the "start page". By default, /var/www serves as the "root" folder, equivalent to the top of a domain. For example in this scenario, /var/www/candy would be equal to domain.tld/candy

If you want flarum to appear at the same place as the "start page". You would consider removing that index.html files and installing flarum in the same place.

There are more steps involved in setting up flarum, including setting up a database, creating a apache config file for your flarum install (as opposed to the default one), changing permissions for directories (which the install should give instructions for)

If you're new to setting up a webserver, I would suggest looking up documentation on exactly that. Others have written far more extensive and illustrative guides then anyone could quickly create here.

Setup Apache2

jordanjay29

For example:
index.html

<html>
<head>A Simple HTML Page</head>
<body>It works!</body>
</html>

Copy/paste that code into a file on your ec2 server and name it index.html. Make sure it's in public_html. Navigate to it on your server (http://yourserver.com/index.html).

DerangedHost

Beautiful, Ill give it a try, thanks.

DerangedHost

The flarum folder is in /var/www/html along with composer and index.html, when in a web browser I can see readme.md and contributing.md what needs to happen for me to get admin.php to work for me?

jordanjay29

DerangedHost How did you install Flarum? Did you follow the instructions on the installation page?

DerangedHost

Yes, though the installation page does not guide you as to where to install using composer, using information I got here I installed flarum inside /var/www/html in a folder called flarum.

jordanjay29

DerangedHost That's because it's up to you.

Flarum utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies and extensions. So, before installing Flarum, you will need to install Composer on your machine. Then run this command in the location where Flarum should be installed

If you have flarum installed, can you navigate to yourserver.com/flarum and see the working install?

DerangedHost

I ran composer and installed flarum but when I navigate to 255.255.255.255/flarum I get a 500 error.

DerangedHost

DerangedHost just going to the ipaddress lets me into the index.html so I can connect

jordanjay29

DerangedHost when I navigate to 255.255.255.255/flarum I get a 500 error.

Is that the fully qualified URL?

DerangedHost

when you say yourserver.com/flarum do you mean execute a path to /var/www/html/flarum ?

DerangedHost

DerangedHost It is a https:// address but the address is not a www.example.com url, it is a IP address

jordanjay29

DerangedHost Yes, but 255.255.255.255 looks like an internal IP local to ec2. It's not accessible to the web.

jordanjay29

FYI, if you're interested in chatting via Gitter it might help speed up the process.

DerangedHost

I can change to glitter one last thing is that I'm just using those numbers as stand ins xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx would work just as well.

DerangedHost

For posterity, if your having this sort of issue, what you probably did was create a new user account, start over and use ubuntu@...
Cheers,
Deranged