Step-by-step tutorial: how to install flarum without public paths

Kurtis

Hi Clark,

Thanks for pointed out, I already removed step 2.3, leave it uncomment. And I change the post title to be Step-by-step.

Yes, you are right, keep the default structure may be helpful for later update, my method may cause unnecessary difficulty.

For DocumentRoot and URL Rewriting, besides these materials, could you provide more for me to learn? Coz I don't fully understand it.
https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#url-rewriting
https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#customizing-paths

Thank You!

teletubbie

clarkwinkelmann
I have 2 questions:
1.When flarum is installed, the default folder is called 'public' and this is the default code:
return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR,
'public' => DIR,
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',
]);

Shouldn't this be the correct code? :

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR,
'public' => DIR.'/public',
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',
]);

2.Accordly to this guide, is it possible leave the code without replace DIR ? like so :
return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR.'/flarum',
'public' => DIR.'/public',
'storage' => DIR.'/flarum/storage',
]);

luceos

teletubbie return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR,
'public' => DIR.'/public',
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',
]);

Flarum installs with those by default (please note it's __DIR__ not DIR.

teletubbie return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR.'/flarum',
'public' => DIR.'/public',
'storage' => DIR.'/flarum/storage',
]);

That's the better solution than using full paths.

teletubbie

Thanks, I placed DIR but flarum editor replaced with DIR

luceos

teletubbie __ equals italic in markdown, you can escape that using backticks `

tbgflarum

I can't find config.php in the flarum folder. I modified the code in site.php

I have so far followed the tutorial mentioned here- https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19536-shared-hosting-installation-one-way

clarkwinkelmann

tbgflarum if you follow https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#customizing-paths and make the changes before performing the online installation wizard, you don't have to update config.php. This file will be created at the end of the installation with the correct value. That's how we intend people to install Flarum.

Only if you change the public URL of the website after the online installation do you need to edit config.php.

kishor

clarkwinkelmann Please help me solve this issue 🙁 I got stuck on it.

tofayel

Kurtis
Hi bro, after changing with your requirement, my site was Blank. why? please help me.

kishor

This won't work. Please help me solve this issue.

luceos

kishor do you see any errors?

kishor

it is syintg 500 error, unable to handle request on screen and on error log,

_[21-Apr-2022 18:39:00 UTC] PHP Warning: require(../site.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home5/public_html/index.php on line 10_

clarkwinkelmann

kishor the first require line in index.php (probably line 10) is probably not correct. site.php and index.php should be in the same folder after moving the files, so the path would be ./site.php instead of ../site.php (first of the 2 edits described in https://docs.flarum.org/install/#customizing-paths).

kishor

@luceos please help me solving this issue 🙁

rolando

Hello guys,

Thanks for putting this tutorial up as it greatly helped me point my site to mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/public which It made me pull my hairs for a couple of days trying to figuring it out. However, after doing so I am now having problems apparently with the assets. Changing colors, from light to dark mode or turning on the colored header doesn't do anything.

Any ideas on how can this be fixed?

Valeyard

rolando Hello guys,

Thanks for putting this tutorial up as it greatly helped me point my site to mydomain.com instead of mydomain.com/public which It made me pull my hairs for a couple of days trying to figuring it out. However, after doing so I am now having problems apparently with the assets. Changing colors, from light to dark mode or turning on the colored header doesn't do anything.

Any ideas on how can this be fixed?

The original OP tutorial is wrong in so many ways unfortunately.

The correct procedure to follow is here.

rolando

Valeyard thanks for your reply. I actually followed those steps but didn't knew what to put on 'public' => __DIR__, so what worked for me was what OP suggested 'public' => '/home/customer/www/domain.com/public_html', if not then all I get is a blank page.

Valeyard

rolando you put in exactly what it shows you, __DIR__. It's a variable that means the execution path.

rolando

Valeyard you put in exactly what it shows you,__DIR__.

I tried something like 'public' => '../folder that has public files' and didn’t work... can you give me an example of what you mean as I didn't understand?