How to update to beta 5?

MrPowerGamerBR

I'm trying to update to beta 5, my old Flarum installation was... bad, so I decided to start fresh but keep the old MySQL database.

So, I installed Flarum and copied the config.php... I was recieving a "Internal Server Error 500" message and no error in Apache's error_log, after reading another thread, I ran the /admin page to convert to MySQL, however, after converting, I received a "Internal Server Error" with this error in the error_log

[Mon Apr 25 22:51:32 2016] [error] [client 198.41.226.131] PHP Warning:  include(/var/www/html/forum_update/storage/formatter/Renderer_75ec2f1cbedebda6f980ac69937c8ecc23cf1c70.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/forum_update/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 5807

I'm running PHP 7 (I heard Flarum now works with PHP 7, that's why I'm running it now)

So... where did I fucked up that now Flarum doesn't work? ? Thanks ?

jordanjay29

Run php flarum migrate from your flarum root.

MrPowerGamerBR

jordanjay29 php flarum migrate

Migrating Flarum...
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-bbcode
Migrating extension: flarum-emoji
Migrating extension: flarum-english
Migrating extension: flarum-flags
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-likes
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-lock
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-markdown
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-mentions
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-sticky
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-subscriptions
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-suspend
Nothing to migrate.
Migrating extension: flarum-tags
Nothing to migrate.
DONE.

And, when I tried opening the URL, I received the same error: Internal Server Error.

Also, the error_log contains the same error as before:

PHP Warning:  include(): Failed opening '/var/www/html/forum_update/storage/formatter/Renderer_75ec2f1cbedebda6f980ac69937c8ecc23cf1c70.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/forum_update/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Configurator.php on line 5807

I will try creating a new Flarum installation later (with a new database) to see if it going to work.

MrPowerGamerBR

I found out the issue, I didn't apply the permissions correctly on the Flarum installation, now the page loads, however...

The page is stuck on "Loading...", no errors in the developer console and no errors in the error_log.

Here is what I got after testing a bit:
1. New installation.
2. Copied the config.php to the new installation.
3. Forum returns "Forum is down for maintenance".
4. Opened the /admin/ page.
5. Forum page loads, however it is stuck at "Loading..."

datitisev

MrPowerGamerBR What do you get in the Javascript console?

MrPowerGamerBR

datitisev Nothing... just... "nothing".

datitisev

MrPowerGamerBR In which page are you there?
Sorry if I didn't say this, but check the console when you are on the admin page ?

Spanish, hey ?

MrPowerGamerBR

datitisev I'm Brazilian ?

Also, did you mean opening the "/admin" page? If yes... I did that, it has "nothing" too (Except the error message "403 Forbidden")

datitisev

MrPowerGamerBR The Forbidden message because you aren't logged in, right?
Did you check out this discussion by Infinitycr4k3r?

MrPowerGamerBR I'm Brazilian

My apologies ?

MrPowerGamerBR

datitisev I know how to install Flarum, my issue is that Flarum just stops working if I copy my config.php to my new installation.

So:

If I create a new Flarum installation with a new database, the forum works without any issues.

If I create a new Flarum installation with an already existing database (my old forum database), the forum doesn't work.

datitisev

MrPowerGamerBR Try installing Flarum with a new database, and then, whenever you have installed it, change config.php to have the details and credentials of the old database.

MrPowerGamerBR

datitisev

Hey! That worked! Thanks!

However every user avatar is broken, but that's not a huge issue ?

However... the database encoding is broken, every special character shows up as another character, example: "~" shows up as "â˜", etc

datitisev

MrPowerGamerBR Glad it works! Thanks to @Infinitycr4k3r

About the character problem, I don't know, sorry ?
Hopefully someone else can solve it for you ?

jordanjay29

What's the character encoding in your database?

What's the character encoding listed in your config.php?

It's possible these don't match.