Extension are installing but not working

xasharma

Hey guys,
I have installed flarum in public_html (shared hosting) with the help of terminal in c panel and then I followed this guide to customize the homepage path from flarum/public to [my site]
Now I am facing some problems like I can easily install the new extensions, they are also available in the admin panel but the extensions are not working after turning on and the profile picture preview is also not available [Screenshot]. These are only 2 errors that I spotted till now.

I have tried to fix error with the troubleshoot guide help - (https://docs.flarum.org/troubleshoot.html#step-1-common-fixes) but it didn't work for me.

For more confirmation, I tried a new installation of flarum in a new directory and with the default path flarum/public .... In this version no problem occurred, all the extensions and profile pictures..... etc all are working great.

How can I solve upper given errors please guide me.

clarkwinkelmann

xasharma is the url value correct in config.php ?

Are you able to use the browser development tools to check where Flarum is trying to load the avatar image from? And what the HTTP response is? Either it's using a wrong URL causing a 404/other error, or maybe the image tag has an empty src value, or something different.

xasharma

The url value is correct in config.php

No i am not using any type of tool ... sorry I am at Beginner level.

I had enabled force https:// redirect and after turning it off and i opened http site it started showing these 2 error -

page can load but it is showing an error on every page -

Oops! Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again.

Icon are not visible, a square box is visible in place of every icon. - [screenshot ]

I really don't know how to check src value

xasharma

Thank you. I found the problem.

Now i want some help .... Let me explain my setup first- I have installed flarum in public_html/hacknation and moved the public files to public_html
This is my main public_html files after moving all files from public -

This is pubic_html/hacksnation directory -

And this is my pubic_html/index.php file -

And this is my pubic_html/hacksnation/site.php file -

My error is that site.php ( from pubic_html/hacksnation/site.php) creates a new directory for assets in pubic_html/hacksnation (2nd pic)... it is not using public_html for assets because the paths are not correct. So please guide me about the path directories.
(you can take a look to above pics for more clarity)

What should be the path for pubic_html/index.php and pubic_html/hacksnation/site.php for this setup to solve the error.

luceos

xasharma can you explain how your forum should become available?

Because you have the index inside public_html but your forum is installed inside public_html/hacksnation. If you want to make Flarum accessible from hacksnation path of your domain, the index.php should also live under public_html/hacksnation...

PS the reason it is not working is because in site.php you need to change the public to: __DIR__.'/../',

xasharma

luceos

I have moved all the files in public_html shown in the above image and everything is working great.

Is there any security issue with this type of setup ?

xasharma

Thank you very much 🙌

luceos

can you explain how your forum should become available?

I just followed this guide - https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#customizing-paths

After doing all stuff according to this guide it started showing https 500 error ( this site cannot handle requests) so i used a display error setting in c panel and created a error log and the error log shows an error in the 10th line of index.php so i changed 10th line from this $site = require './site.php'; to $site = require 'hacksnation/site.php'; and it started working but it also started to create a different asset file in the same folder where site.php is and then i created this discussion and now ...... everything solved .

luceos

xasharma you need to edit the .htaccess if using Apache to uncomment the lines that mention when Flarum is installed in the public directory. Otherwise files like vendor are publicly available. The docs describe this in detail.

xasharma

luceos

yes i followed this guide - https://docs.flarum.org/install.html#customizing-paths and edited .htaccess and .ngnix.config.

Now Is there any security issues ?

luceos

xasharma https://hacksnation.com/vendor/composer/installed.json looks okay 👍️

Papa

For future readers, like me, who don't know:

"You can use __DIR__ to get your current script's directory. It has been in PHP only since version 5.3, and it's the same as using "