Can I install flarum on a remote LAMP VM?

paulaweene

I'm triyn' to install flarum on a Lamp VM by MS Azure Bitnami LAMP 7.4.18-0
So I've created the virtual machine, checked php, mysql and composer versions (composer was to oldie so I updated it)
Outputs:

php

~$ php --version
PHP 7.4.18 (cli) (built: May  4 2021 14:52:49) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.4.18, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

(I tell you in advance that phpmyadmin is installed by default and works, learned it through some pain of failed installations)

mysql

~$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 8.0.24 for Linux on x86_64 (Source distribution)

composer

~$ composer
COMPOSER LOGO
Composer version 2.0.13 2021-04-27 13:11:08

Apache seems not to be installed

sudo systemctl apache2 status
Unknown operation apache2

But do I need Apache? 🤔 Cause my Idea is to install flarum locally to the VM (with localhost as host for database etc) and reach the site through the VM's public ip like http://51.104.35.1xx/flarum/public (this to avoid spending money for a domain and DNS reg for now)
Anyway... I’ve already done these things:
~$ ssh -N -L 888:127.0.0.1:80 myusername@51.104.35.1xx /*to access the VM webroot (and phpmyadmin) through 127.0.0.1:8888 in my browser

THEN

~$ ssh myusername@51.104.35.1xx
Password:__
~$ cd /home/bitnami/htdocs
/home/bitnami/htdocs$ mkdir flarum && cd flarum
/home/bitnami/htdocs/flarum$ composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta
Now, I presume, I have flarum installed with public directory and .htaccess file (as mentiond in the install gude)

/*ls -a output:*/ 
/home/bitnami/htdocs/flarum/public$ ls -a
.  ..  assets  .htaccess  index.php  web.config

Going to >>>http://127.0.0.1:8888/flarum/public
Getting This:

Solved with

sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon  /opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs/flarum/
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs/flarum

And finally get it!

So what to do next to make the forum reachable as a normal website? (I failed another installation, flarum was completely installed and accessible from 127.0.0.1:8888/flarum/public but it was unusable... "Something went wrong!" at any action including Administration and admin's profile)

Guess I've insert wrong values and break somethind in the database stuff...

askvortsov

paulaweene "Something went wrong!" at any action including Administration and admin's profile)

In the video, you can see that the "Not Found" error is being returned on the level of the web server, not on the level of Flarum. This means your web server isn't properly configured to serve Flarum. Have you set up the document root to point to the public folder?

paulaweene But do I need Apache?

Flarum, at the end of the day, is just a PHP script. There are tools for serving PHP scripts directly, but the majority of installations uses a web server like Apache or Nginx to serve PHP scripts to users. And besides, even if using a direct serve tool, you'd need to serve images and JS files and other static resources.

paulaweene

askvortsov Have you set up the document root to point to the public folder?

How to do this exactly?