The 403 Forbidden error has always occurred during Flarum installation!

gamestart

I loved this forum so much that I tried to install it countless times, all of which were 403 Forbidden errors.
I really don't know what's wrong, which great god to help.
My steps are:

Install the server
Install Composer
insert. nginx.conf
In this step, the page to fill in the database cannot be seen all the time.
I try to write that index.html can be accessed normally.
Nginx1.16 PHP7.2 Mysql Mariadb10.1
Composer is installed according to Centos method on Vultr.

luceos

gamestart maybe you need to point your webserver config to the public subdirectory?

https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#customizing-paths

Sanguine

gamestart Besides speculating, you could just look up what goes wrong, Nginx will conveniently log it (likely to /var/log/nginx/error.log).

gamestart

luceos I customized all the files in the public directory to the website directory and installed them successfully, but the problem is that the assets and storage directories must have 777 permissions to install them. I am worried that this is unsafe.

tankerkiller125

Double check that the flarum files are owned by the correct group and user, they must be owned by the same group and user that your web server software uses (usually www-data) you can usually set the owner in linux via chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/flarum/install

I'm currently working on getting this information added to the installation documentation.

gamestart

tankerkiller125 the assets and storage directories must have 777 permissions to install them. I am worried that this is unsafe.

gamestart

Sanguine okay, thank you

jordanjay29

gamestart can you please run ls -lA on the Flarum root folder, and paste the output here?

luceos

gamestart I am worried that this is unsafe.

This is unsafe, especially in common shared hosting environments.

It would be better to identify the underlying issue and/or guarantee the file permissions are set properly by giving the web user (under which php runs) the permissions required during installation.

gamestart

jordanjay29
drwxr-xr-x 5 www www 4096 Sep 30 15:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 30 14:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 252 Sep 16 21:25 CHANGELOG.md
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1656 Sep 30 14:54 composer.json
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 243780 Sep 30 14:55 composer.lock
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www www 534 Sep 30 14:41 config.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 354 Sep 16 21:25 .editorconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 311 Sep 16 21:25 extend.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487 Sep 16 21:25 flarum
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1073 Sep 16 21:25 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1509 Sep 16 21:25 .nginx.conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 21:25 public
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2623 Sep 16 21:25 README.md
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 4096 Sep 30 14:51 storage
drwxrwxrwx 42 root root 4096 Sep 30 14:55 vendor

gamestart

luceos Now you can install without customizing the directory, but execute Composer Create-ProjectFlarum/Flarum.-Stability = Beta. The default 755 still does not have permissions. The directory must have 777 permissions to install successfully.

tankerkiller125

gamestart You need to update the owner of the files like I stated earlier, your files are currently owned by the root user, all of the files in your flarum directory need to be owned by the user that php runs as (www-data usually) as stated in my previous post you can do this by running chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/flarum/folder as the root user or your distros version of sudo, your assets and storage directory should only require the 755 permission as the installer states.

jordanjay29

tankerkiller125 (www-data usually)

From my preliminary research, it appears that CentOS may use a different user. I've seen it reported as apache for Apache2 webservers, but we'll need to discover what the user name is for OP's nginx stack. It's probably nginx but we can double-check.

gamestart Can you run lsof -i | grep :http or ps aux | grep php and paste the output here again?

gamestart

tankerkiller125 Depending on your approach, I have installed successfully, thanks！

gamestart

jordanjay29 I have installed successfully, thanks！