Trying to install Flarum on shared hosting

tbgflarum

I am trying to install Flarum on Shared hosting by KnownHost. They have installed composer for me and I have created a directory below public_html and moved the files mentioned in this tutorial here- https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19536-shared-hosting-installation-one-way activated the php extensions.

Now, when I install execute the command after loggin to my server from public_html I see this-

composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta
Creating a "flarum/flarum" project at "./"
Installing flarum/flarum (v0.1.0-beta.13)

Installing flarum/flarum (v0.1.0-beta.13): Downloading (100%)
Created project in /home/discussgoat/domains/discuss.goatforum.com/public_html/.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Killed

Also, I edited the index file in public_html and executable in the directory I created below public_html still I don't see anything when I access the website through the browser.

Wadera

tbgflarum
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Killed

Looks like installation script was killed. Probably regarding to some timeout (that's most common problem with shared hosting companies)?

tbgflarum

Wadera What you are saying might be true as I got an email alert for 'excessive resource usage'. I have raised a support ticket with the KH and waiting for their reply.

tbgflarum

Wadera What is the Flarum executable in the directory too according to this tutorial?
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/19536-shared-hosting-installation-one-way

flarum
site.php

Which one?

r4nchy

tbgflarum yes, commonly its the Physical Memory that isn't enough in shared hosting to install flarum/extensions.
I have faced this too

jordanjay29

tbgflarum second to last file, named flarum

tbgflarum

jordanjay29 I pasted the code mentioned in the tutorial in the link. Still doesn't work. 🙁

r4nchy

ask your hosting support to find out what is causing the issue when running the composer.

but as i have said earlier it is commonly due to low phy memory provided by shared hosting. in that case you will have to manually install flarum on your local pc and then upload them on the server

tbgflarum

r4nchy if I install locally and upload to the server will it work? Is their a good tutorial for mac?

r4nchy

yes it will, however you will have to make sure that the php and composer version in your local machine and server should be the exactly the same
I don't know if there is any tutorials for macos

Kube17

Hi, maybe a bit late but I had this error (killed) on hostinger shared hosting and it was due to obsolete composer version. I had to install composer manually and call the .phar file instead of the composer command to workaround this problem.

clarkwinkelmann

Kube17 technically, it's just because of the limited memory or execution time, nothing obsolete or broken.

The new composer version is more efficient, so there's a higher chance it works on hosting with less resources.

There will still be hosting with not enough resources to run composer v2, but we've seen a big improvement!