New install on shared hosting is slow, glitchy and unable to post

JamminMB

I recently installed Flarum on Namecheap shared hosting plan, but the forum is slow and glitchy, and I'm unable to post anything. I checked the config.php file and the URL (https), database, username, and password are all correct. The extensions I installed also all support Flarum 1.0.

Namecheap took some time to install an SSL cert on the subdomain that the forum is on (Flarum was installed before the SSL certificate came into effect). Not sure how to fix?

GreXXL

JamminMB without further information it will be impossible to give you advise. If you want you can also share the URL to your installation so we can verify ourselves. Please share the output of php flarum info. Maybe you can also run us through your installation procedure in a bit more detail?

Many are using Namecheap hosting and I’ve not heard of any problems so far.

JamminMB

GreXXL I don't have access to Cpanel right now but here is the site https://forum.dronesumo.com/

Regarding the install, I set up the necessary requirements in Cpanel and then followed the Flarum install method as per https://docs.flarum.org/install.html

I used Terminal on Cpanel to install with Composer

JamminMB

GreXXL here is the php flarum info output

Flarum core 1.0.4
PHP version: 7.4.21
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, hash, filter, ftp, gettext, gmp, SPL, iconv, pcntl, readline, Reflection, session, standard, shmop, SimpleXML, mbstring, tokenizer, xml, apcu, bcmath, dom, fileinfo, gd, imap, intl, json, exif, mysqlnd, mysqli, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, Phar, posix, soap, sockets, tidy, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, ionCube Loader, Zend OPcache
+-------------------------------------+---------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions | | |
+-------------------------------------+---------+--------+
| ID | Version | Commit |
+-------------------------------------+---------+--------+
| flarum-flags | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-subscriptions | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-tags | v1.0.3 | |
| flarum-markdown | v1.0.1 | |
| fof-spamblock | 1.0.0 | |
| flarum-suspend | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-approval | v1.0.0 | |
| fof-mason | 1.0.1 | |
| fof-follow-tags | 1.0.1 | |
| fof-oauth | 1.0.1 | |
| justoverclock-keywords | 1.9 | |
| askvortsov-moderator-warnings | v0.6.0 | |
| fof-subscribed | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-split | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-merge-discussions | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-socialprofile | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-share-social | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-formatting | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-best-answer | 1.0.1 | |
| sycho-profile-cover | v1.3.0 | |
| sycho-advanced-extension-categories | v0.1.3 | |
| fof-drafts | 1.0.1 | |
| ianm-synopsis | 1.0.0 | |
| flarum-sticky | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-statistics | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-mentions | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-lock | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-likes | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-lang-english | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-emoji | v1.0.0 | |
| flarum-bbcode | v1.0.0 | |
| v17development-seo | v1.8.0 | |
| askvortsov-rich-text | v2.0.3 | |
| clarkwinkelmann-author-change | 1.0.1 | |
| clarkwinkelmann-emojionearea | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-polls | 1.0.3 | |
| fof-default-user-preferences | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-profile-image-crop | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-sitemap | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-impersonate | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-stopforumspam | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-upload | 1.0.1 | |
| fof-user-bio | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-ban-ips | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-ignore-users | 1.0.0 | |
| fof-user-directory | 1.0.2 | |
| fof-analytics | 1.0.0 | |
+-------------------------------------+---------+--------+
Base URL: https://forum.dronesumo.com

luceos Are you able to see content within the posts? I can't see images, videos, or any text, only post titles - Even when opening in different browsers. And when I click the back arrow button, the site freezes.

luceos can you confirm that expiry headers are configured within litespeed?

Sorry, I'm not sure how I would check that?

Mark73

did a quick speed test, seems alright.

I use Namecheap, never faced such issues.

luceos

Time to First Byte for me was below 400ms! Your images, css and js seem to load slow, can you confirm that expiry headers are configured within litespeed? We ship Flarum with some defaults for Apache, I'm not sure how to translate that into litespeed.

rafaucau

luceos We ship Flarum with some defaults for Apache, I'm not sure how to translate that into litespeed.

In general, Litespeed is compatible with .htaccess for Apache, but it also has its own extras https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lscache/noplugin/settings/

So a default Flarum configuration should work.

Ralkage

On your forum using Chrome, my dev console is showing an error pertaining to justoverclock/flarum-ext-keywords; try disabling that extension, clearing your Flarum cache, and see if that helps or allows your discussions to load properly.

Ref:

justoverclock/flarum-ext-keywords

JamminMB

Ralkage That fixed it, thanks.