How to reinstall only the flarum files(not the database)

Benito

Hi all,

I have a problem in my Flarum install which I detailed in another post. When I logout, the page does not refresh and the user has to manually refresh the page to get this to work.

I would like to keep my database but reinstall all the code files, what is the best way to do this please?

Thank you.

SKevo

Backup your database, then you can reinstall everything. After you're done, just import it. I think that this is the easiest solution that'll work for you.

Just deleting Flarum files and reinstalling it by Composer should work and shouldn't erase your database (unless you order it, or your database data is in the Flarum directory that you will be deleting). Anyways, you should always make a database backup just to be sure - then you can do anything, as you can rollback the data if something goes wrong

Benito

SKevo thanks for the tip!

clarkwinkelmann

The solution by SKevo is probably the best one but here are some other possible options that can help depending on the situation:

It's unusual to mess up the files in vendor unless manually editing them (which you shouldn't do), but if that happened, you can just delete the vendor folder and run composer install to re-install all the files like they were.

To copy a fresh version of all Flarum and extension files in public, you can run the php flarum assets:publish command. This also happens automatically after the Flarum installation and whenever you enable an extension.

Benito

clarkwinkelmann Thanks, I opened another thread on the reinstallation.
I deleted everything including the database, fresh install, still the same logout problem. I closed this thread to restart with a new one.