Extension has been installed but there is no extension button

blai

Hello everyone,

I am new to the Flarum community and have been running into a few issues with extensions as of late. I have already installed several extensions so I understand the process (somewhat), however, the last few extensions I have downloaded haven't been working properly and I was hoping someone could tell me what I did wrong.

example extension: Davis social profile

So, I would install an extension and the command would run smoothly with all the dependencies installed. No error message would popup and when I check in the flarum directory for the extension there is a newly generated vendor and composer.lock file. However, if I check installed.json, the extension wouldn't be listed there and when I check my extension list on my site, there would also be no extension listed.

I have tried clearing the cache and performing composer update/install commands.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? I doubt this issue is due to the extension itself since other users have said that it works fine for them.

datitisev

blai Just so we are on the same page:
You are installing the extension via SSH or similar on your server, or you have installed it locally and then uploaded Flarum through FTP or something like that, right?

What version are you using, and where are the extensions being installed?
Thank you.

EDIT: I just saw another post of yours, and you say you get an error when using composer via SSH.
Could you post the exact command you are using, and the exact output in between backticks (or ~)?
Example:

```
output
```

blai

No problem, thank you for the response. Here are the steps I am doing:

1) Download Davis Social Profile zip from: https://github.com/dav-is/flarum-socialprofile
2) Unzip folder and then drop the folder into /home/username/my_domain/vendor/flarum via FTP,
so /home/username/my_domain/vendor/flarum/flarum-ext-socialprofile-master
3) SSH into my host server and go to /home/username/my_domain/vendor/flarum/flarum-ext-socialprofile-master and then run composer install
4) Dependencies start to install and all of them install at 100%
5) Run composer update

jordanjay29

blai

You should follow this for #2.

Then skip to 5 and run it from your flarum root.

datitisev

blai Ok, so this is what you need to do instead:
davis/flarum-ext-socialprofile

Download Davis Social Profile zip from: https://github.com/dav-is/flarum-socialprofile
Unzip folder and then drop the folder into /home/username/my_domain/workbench via FTP,
so /home/username/my_domain/workbench/davis/flarum-ext-socialprofile (no -master)

Add the following to your package.json (see jordanjay29):

    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "path",
            "url": "workbench/*/"
        }
    ],

Also add this inside require

    "davis/flarum-ext-socialprofile": "@dev"

SSH into my host server and go to /home/username/my_domain/ and then run composer install
Dependencies start to install and all of them install at 100%
Run composer update

~~Still adding...~~
@jordanjay29 Does this look good?

blai

Works like a charm, I will keep these steps in mind for the other extensions. Thanks jordan and david!

datitisev

blai Glad it worked!

blai

datitisev Hello, sorry to bug you again but I have replicated the steps so I can install another extension: "https://github.com/Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese" but it is not working. When i run either composer install or update, it doesn't recognize that there is an extension that needs to be installed or updated.

I am getting "Nothing to install or update". Are there any additional steps I have to take?

Thank you as always guys/girls!

datitisev

blai home/username/my_domain/workbench/davis/flarum-ext-socialprofile

So, I'm guessing you put the folder in workbench/davis
You need to put the folder in author/package
This case:
home/username/my_domain/workbench/Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese
Or something like that, whatever composer has.

blai

datitisev Previously I had put the folder in: "home/username/my_domain/workbench/".

I have followed your instructions and put it into: "home/username/my_domain/workbench/Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese" but it still shows the same "Nothing to install or update".

Thanks for your help as always!

datitisev

blai

You will have to include the requirement of that package too.
Add this inside require

"Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese": "@dev"

Replace the package name with author/package, whatever it says in the composer require command in the extension's discussion.

blai

datitisev Yeah I tried that too, still no good. :[

blai

datitisev Here is the package.json.

{
"name": "jsthon/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese",
"description": "Simplified Chinese language pack.",
"type": "flarum-extension",
"keywords": ["locale"],
"license": "MIT",
"version": "v0.1.0-beta.5",
"authors": [
{
"name": "Jsthon Wong",
"email": "jsthon@outlook.com"
}
],
"support": {
"source": "https://github.com/jsthon/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese"
},
"require": {
"flarum/core": "^{0.1.0-beta.5"}
},
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "workbench/*/"
}
],
"require-dev": {
"Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese": "@dev"
},

"extra": {
    "flarum-extension": {
        "title": "Simplified Chinese",
        "icon": {
            "image": "icon.svg",
            "backgroundColor": "#DE2910",
            "backgroundSize": "cover",
            "backgroundPosition": "center"
        }
    },
    "flarum-locale": {
        "code": "zh",
        "title": "ç®€ä½“ä¸æ–‡"
    }
}

}

datitisev

blai "repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "workbench/*/"
}
],
"require-dev": {
"Flarum-Chinese/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese": "@dev"
},

Oh, sorry, you have to add this part to the docroot package.json, the main one, Flarum's.
And, instead of Flarum-Chinese/Flarum-ext..., do jsthon/flarum-ext-simplified-chinese, because that is the actual package name.
And instead of adding it to require-dev, add it just to require

blai

datitisev Perfect! It installed just fine and I tested it again with another extension. The second extension installed fine too. I will make a how-to post soon about how to manually install a package so everyone who faces this issue will now how to solve it!