Problem with Installation on VPS

Benito

Hi All,

I do not understand the installation process.

I would like to installed flarum here:
https://website.com/forum

It is my understanding that the files in the public folder have to be copied to:
public_html/forum

But for security purpose, it looks like I need to install the flarum folder below the public_html.

Is this correct?

If yes, what should be the path in the public_html/forum/index.php ?

I tried this:
$site = require 'flarum/../../site.php';

But it is not working.

Also what about the htaccess?

Thanks

clarkwinkelmann

Benito hi! You can follow these instructions to move the index.php file and the other required files one folder up for a more "traditional" installation: https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#customizing-paths

Benito

clarkwinkelmann Hi,

I came in this forum because I had already looked at the installation documentation but could not find a good example based on what I was speaking about above.

If the installation flarum folder is below the public_html, but the actual forum resides in 😀 www.website.com/forum

It says in the doc "However, if you wish to host Flarum in a subdirectory (like yoursite.com/forum), ", but does not explain where should the actual flarum folder should be . I understand that the public folder content has to go in the "forum" folder but the documentation fails to explain what happens to the rest of the folder(the flarum one).

Thanks

clarkwinkelmann

Benito you can manually create the forum folder, run the create-project command inside of the forum folder, and then follow "customizing paths" to remove the public folder.

All the other files that are not inside public stay where they are. That's why you need to edit the htaccess file to enable the lines that block access to those files/folders from the web.

Technically, you can move those files outside of the forum folder and put them anywhere on the server, this can be done by editing site.php with the new paths. But this is not a requirement and it's probably easier to keep all files in the same folder, very much like traditional web applications do.

Benito

clarkwinkelmann When you say "removing" the public folder, you mean "moving" the files which are in the public folder inside the website.com/forum folder. Am I correct?

Thanks

Justoverclock

Benito correct

Benito

Justoverclock Thanks, will try now :-)

Benito

During the installation I am getting a lot of "suggestions", it is ok to just leave them

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Thanks,

Benito

The installation worked, thanks! Just not sure about the suggestions from the illuminate package

clarkwinkelmann

Benito the suggestions are meant for developers. You can usually just ignore them.

Some community extensions might ask you to install those suggestions sometimes, if that's needed they will explain how to do it in their extension discussions.

Benito

clarkwinkelmann Thank you so much. Really good forum, playing with it now :-)