Issues with first-time installing Flarum

RediPanda

Hello! I've been adored with how Flarum looks and I want to incorporate it as a forum service compared to other sites like Discourse.

I've had a few tricky issues while installing Flarum, mostly something about Composer and cURL not liking each other but eventually, that has been resolved by executing:

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

Now that I was granted access to the Setup page, I filled the information in as needed, however, there seems to be an error that I cannot solve myself. Can somebody please help me check it out and guide me the way to install Flarum properly?

Thank you!

Here are some images provided that may help you guys:
(https://prnt.sc/wf7p7p) - Setup Page with "Something went wrong: and the DevTools open."
(https://prnt.sc/wf7pdz) - Some error page when refreshed.
(https://prnt.sc/wf7pk9) - Photo of missing flarum.logs file, that could've helped.

Here's an image of PhpMyAdmin stating that it had access to the database and successfully written some rows in there.
(https://prnt.sc/wf7ppq)

luceos

Ignoring platform requirements in composer most likely will have caused all your issues. If any of the dependencies are missing you need to add them. The default flarum installation doesn't require that much to be honest.

RediPanda

Ah okay, I'll re-execute that command with dependencies and we'll see how we go.

RediPanda

Yeah no, it stops me at

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: curl

That's if I ran composer install, without the --ignore-platform-reqs flag.

Even though I can 100% confirm that cURL is enabled in PHP and working in CLI.

sizonov_stas

RediPanda show output php -m

RediPanda

sizonov_stas Sorry for the late response, my last post was awaiting approval.

`[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
gd
hash
iconv
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
Phar
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]`

RediPanda

Here you go https://prnt.sc/wf8wgk

sizonov_stas

composer require ext-curl

RediPanda

sizonov_stas

Is this correct? (https://prnt.sc/wf9a51)

Cause refreshing the website, it's still shooting out the curl issue.

sizonov_stas

RediPanda php --ini

RediPanda

Here you go ()https://prnt.sc/wf9jd5)

sizonov_stas

RediPanda in C:\php\php.ini uncomment extension=curl

RediPanda

Hello, I'm back, but with a solution for those who used the search bar function who may have got similar symptoms to me.

I managed to get Flarum to work on my Win Server, so here's the following solutions.

If you are given a white page with the text stating that Composer is missing cURL.

That means your Apache (for me) instance was clearly not loading cURL properly. For me, checking the errors.log in Apache/logs was enough for me and after googling the entire internet it came down to the fact that I was missing certain .dll's that required cURL to operate. I obtained these missing OpenSSL dlls through here: (https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/)

Next, I was having issues with Cloudflare accepting the installation steps. That was due to timeouts limited by Cloudflare

This solution took a while, but all I've done was paused Cloudflare, extended the TimeOut option in the apache config, extended the timeout and memory limit in my php.ini and that should've done the trick. Once I've successfully installed Flarum via HTTP, I made sure to re-enable Cloudflare, re-tweaked my vhosts to accept SSL and 443 connections and modified the Flarum config to re-route all HTTP routes to HTTPS instead.

After that, everything is now working smoothly with no issues.

sizonov_stas Thank you for your efforts and your responses actually helped me with debugging the issues.

RediPanda

Yea, I already done that. (https://prnt.sc/wf9o5f)

sizonov_stas

i dunno, sry