Install Question

Justoverclock

aaronhall we need to know the folder structure exactly to help u

aaronhall

I did this command first: cd public_html && mkdir discuss && cd discuss

and then entered this: composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta

Is that what you need?

Or do you need this: /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/discuss/

Justoverclock

aaronhall no i need to know what u have inside discuss folder

aaronhall

Justoverclock This is what is on the index page:

Index of /discuss
Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory -
CHANGELOG.md 2021-03-15 11:19 1.5K
LICENSE 2021-03-15 11:19 1.1K
composer.json 2021-03-15 11:19 1.3K
composer.lock 2021-05-05 08:37 258K
extend.php 2021-03-15 11:19 265
flarum 2021-03-15 11:19 634
public/ 2021-03-15 11:19 -
site.php 2021-03-15 11:19 1.8K
storage/ 2021-03-15 11:19 -
vendor/ 2021-05-05 08:37 -

That is what shows up when I go to mydomain.org/discuss to finish installing

Justoverclock

aaronhall i can't see config file, htaccess file....

aaronhall

There is not one....do I have to manually add those?

aaronhall

Okay, so when I click on "public" on that list it takes me to mydomain.org/discuss/public and now let sme install

what will be the link to my flarum forum when this is done then?

Justoverclock

aaronhall no, something went wrong during install...u should have a folder like this, exept for the "workbench" folder.... (i use custom path, so if u want your site that point on the root u need to follow custom path rules here):
https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#customizing-paths

remove all the file inside the discuss folder, point your terminal to that foder and launch again
composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta

otherwise try to point yoursite/discuss/public

aaronhall

Okay, so when I click on "public" on that list it takes me to mydomain.org/discuss/public and now lets me install Flarum.

what will be the link to my flarum forum when this is done then?

Justoverclock

aaronhall if u follow custom path, your site will be:

mydomain.org/discuss

aaronhall

Justoverclock Okay, trying again.

aaronhall

Same thing. It wants to to click on "public" when I go to mydomain.org/discuss to install.
So, I tried installing it to see what happens and now this error pops up on the Flarum isntall page which happens to be now: mydomain.org/discuss/public

the error is: Something went wrong: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'USER NAME '@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Justoverclock

aaronhall this seems to related to your database connection

askvortsov

aaronhall Yep, this means the database credentials you entered are incorrect.

aaronhall

Let me start over and try again

How do I move the files from "public" to the folder I want....in laymens terms how do I do this part: Simply move all the files inside the public directory (including .htaccess) into the directory you want to serve Flarum from. Then edit .htaccess and uncomment lines 9-15 in order to protect sensitive resources. For Nginx, uncomment lines 8-11 of .nginx.conf.

I don't understand what it means by uncomment.

askvortsov

aaronhall I don't understand what it means by uncomment.

In code, we can denote some lines as "comments", meaning they won't actually run or be evaluated. This is done by placing some special character, often a hashtag. If you remove the hashtag from the start of the line, that uncomment the line, and then the line will be run.

aaronhall

So lines 9-15 add a hashtag?

Ralkage

aaronhall the opposite, remove the hashtags from those lines 🙂

askvortsov

aaronhall there should currently be one there. Or 2 slashes (//). Comment syntax varies depending on the language.

aaronhall

Okay, did that.

Now, this part: You will also need to edit the index.php file and change the following line:

$site = require './site.php';
Finally, edit the site.php and update the paths in the following lines to reflect your new directory structure:

'base' => DIR,
'public' => DIR,
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',

Laymens terms lol what do I do?