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Radu

I know it's a lot to ask, but can somebody from the community be kind and help me install Flarum on my host? I have SSH access and I tried installing it by myself but I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing since I want it installed in a specific folder.

If so it will be much appreciated!

Ralkage

Radu hello and welcome to the Flarum community!

Have you checked out the installation portion of our docs?

If you wish you customize your installation path, please check out the Customizing Paths section more specifically 🙂

I hope this helps!

010101

Radu You’re probably doing it right but it can get tricky setting the correct file paths in index.php and the Flarum executable file depending on where you are installing.

The steps I published may not help you, but you can try them.

Or, search this forum. Others have posted various install guides and tips.

Radu

Ralkage 010101
I have found your published steps yesterday but the thing is: My host domain is "example1.com" and here I have added other domain "example2.com" with a folder called "discuss" where Flarum will be installed. The "example2.com" folder "discuss" is above "public_html" folder as you can see in the screenshot. My question is if I want a clean install where do I install Composer, and after that how can I install Flarum in the "discuss" folder which is the domain folder for "example2.com" where the forum should be visible. These are 2 different domains, "example2.com" is added to "example1.com" which is the host.

Much appreciated!

Radu

Do I install Composer on my Mac machine or on the webhost? Maybe it's a stupid question but I don't get it. If I install it on my Mac machine how do I connect to my host and install Flarum there?

Should I connect to my webhost via SSH and run Composer install commands there?

chrisonline

Radu Should I connect to my webhost via SSH and run Composer install commands there?

Yes! Connect via SSH and install composer.

Radu

After installing Composer via SSH I have run the "cd discuss" which is the folder of the domain where I want Flarum to be installed, then I hit "composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta" but didn't work as you can see in the screenshot—is saying that the project directory is not empty. I never used the "discuss" directory and there it's just a default folder called "cgi-bin".

chrisonline

Radu
As you mentioned "just a default folder called "cgi-bin". So it is not empty ;-)
It need a complete empty folder without any sub folders.

Radu

@010101
chrisonline Thank you for your help, I managed to install Flarum. 😀

One more thing if you're kind and patient with someone who doesn't know much in this matter. The "Table Prefix" as seen in the screenshot, should I leave it blank, or do I have to manually create one, or what's my table prefix exactly?

Much appreciated!

010101

Radu That is up to you. I do not think a table prefix is absolutely required, but it helps if you decide to install two Flarum installations in one database for example. I would go ahead and create one. The prefix can simply be something like dis81 or just dis.

Radu

010101 That help, thank you. My forum is live now but it's at domain.com/public not directly at domain.com
Any idea of how to fix this?

010101

Radu Yes, you will need to do a couple things. Take all the files out of the public folder and move them to the main discuss folder and update some files.

After moving the public files from the public folder to the main discuss folder you will then need to update the file paths and the htaccess file. This is from the installation docs:

...you can set up Flarum without the public directory.

Simply move all the files inside the public directory (including .htaccess) into the directory you want to serve Flarum from. Then edit .htaccess and uncomment lines 9-14 in order to protect sensitive resources. Finally, edit both index.php and the flarum executable, and update the paths in the following lines to reflect your new directory structure.

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

I hope this helps! You're almost there.

Radu

010101 I understand all of it except "Then edit .htaccess and uncomment lines 9-14 in order to protect sensitive resources.", what should I modify in the .htaccess file, and what does uncomment mean?

And second, should I delete the empty "public" folder afterward?

Thank you for your patience!

010101

Radu Remove the # in front of "RewriteRule" on lines 9 - 14. The # turns lines into "comments" in the htaccess files. By uncommenting, the server knows to read them.

Radu

010101 I did all that but I get HTTP ERROR 500.

Changed everything from:

require '../vendor/autoload.php';

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server(
Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR.'/..',
'public' => DIR.'/../public',
'storage' => DIR.'/../storage',
])
);

$server->listen();

To:

require '../vendor/autoload.php';

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server(
Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR.'/',
'public' => DIR.'/',
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',
])
);

$server->listen();

010101

Radu I'm thinking it is something to do with the file paths you have in index.php and/or the flarum file.

I think the code in your flarum file needs to look like this:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$server = new Flarum\Console\Server(
    Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
        'base' => __DIR__,
        'public' => __DIR__,
        'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
    ])
);

$server->listen();

And index.php like this:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server(
    Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
        'base' => __DIR__,
        'public' => __DIR__,
        'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
    ])
);

$server->listen();

Radu

Yes, I have forgotten about ../ from vendor but:

010101

Radu That could simply be a cache thing. Empty your browser cache and via SSH run php flarum cache:clear.

Radu

010101 I did that already and cleared by browser cache also, but nothing changed.

010101

Radu I don't know if this matters but your DIRs are a little different that what I pasted above. Maybe try using exactly what I pasted above for index.php and the flarum file. And, double check the config file... what site URL is there?

Radu

010101 Oh God, it was the config file.

Works great now! Thank you so much for your patience!!!