Updating Flarum on shared host

jbidston

Hi all,

I'm trying to update Flarum on a shared host.

I'm working through your instructions, but I'm struggling with the basics of composer. I don't think that this is helped by the fact I'm using a shared host. It seems to have a few "quirks".

Composer

For example, I can't just run composer, I need to run php-5.6 composer.phar, and that only seems to work from the root directory.

I've managed to execute the first three steps in the update process, but on the fourth I'm at a loss.

composer remove flarum/composer-installer $remove -q

Composer

Do I need to have a composer.phar file in the flarum directory?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jon

datitisev

jbidston So you are executing composer from composer.phar
That is the problem, that when you cd into the directory... the composer.phar isn't there anymore!
Don't worry, you can very easily fix this by executing this command instead:

php-5.6 ../../composer.phar remove flarum/composer-install $remove -q

All this does is make sure you are choosing the existing composer.phar, which is two directories above public_html/discuss

I hope this solves it for you ?

EDIT: Any other commands you may have to run with composer, do in the Flarum directory (public_html/discuss), and just replace composer with php-5.6 ../../composer.phar

jbidston

Hi datitisev

Thanks! I tried that and to be honest it didn't work. No idea why it didn't as it seems logical to me.

Composer

I've managed to make some progress by copying composer.phar into the directory and it seemed to work...?

Composer

But now I think my luck has run out.

Composer

I don't know where to start with this one to be honest. (I get the same when using ../../composer.phar too.)

Thanks
Jon

datitisev

jbidston Sorry, I didn't explain myself well ?
Instead of copying composer, I was calling composer from its original directory from the direcory public_html/discuss .

Anyhow, I do not know what the last error is, sorry ?

EDIT: Just saw you updated your post, glad you understood me ?

jbidston

Yeah @datitisev, I understood what you meant, seemed logical, tried it, but it didn't work ?

Only thing that worked was actually copying composer.phar.

Something seems wonky but I don't know what.

I think it is related to my shared hosting, TSOHost if that makes any difference.

Thanks
Jon

luceos

jbidston move that composer.phar to the same directory as flarums composer.json and rerun the command you used first ?

iFaisal

jbidston you must install Composer on full path ,then you can run it anywhere .

jbidston

It's looking like I'll have to do a fresh install and try and import the databases for users, discussions and posts ? ?

meetdilip

@datitisev , do you use Skype ?

datitisev

meetdilip I don't, but I have account.
Better via Gitter (https://gitter.im/datitisev)

luceos From what i have seen, he already copied it to the Flarum directory...

@jbidston If it is too much trouble to update it on the shared host, you could try using FTP or whatever to have the files local, then update locally, and upload the changes back to your hosting.
If you want to do this, say so, because there are more steps and it seems there are... ?

jbidston

luceos , I've moved composer.phar into the same directory and that allowed me to run the remove command without errors.

iFaisal Davis, unfortunately I'm on a shared host so I don't think I can install Composer myself.

Update
I've managed to run the remove command without errors, but I'm now unable to run the following command

composer require $require

Composer

When looking into this, StackOverflow suggests that this is because I am using PHP in CGI Binary mode not CLI.

I'm not going to pretend to know what that means, but I know it suggests I go to my host and raise a support ticket.

Thanks for your help and replies, I'll update this thread if I get a reply on the off chance someone else is struggling with a shared host ?

Davis

iFaisal he says it's a shared host so that may not be posible

iFaisal

jbidston Im using shared host as well, and they installed for me, and they helped me lots till the flarum works fine.

jbidston

Fixed it, instead of running:

php-5.6 composer.phar require $require

I had to run:

/usr/bin/php-5.6-cli composer.phar require $require

To make sure that I hadn't messed things up by trying my previous commands I ran through the steps from beginning to end with the CLI version, and all is well.

Updated to 0.1.0-beta.5 ?

(Great piece of software by the way.)