Using Flarum with Laravel Forge?

MonteCarlo

Hello,

I have an app running via Laravel on my domain, and I want to also host flarum on the same domain but using /forum. I'm using NGINX so I was hoping there might be a way I can achieve this without moving the files out of the public folder etc as described in the docs.

The main problem I have is that when I try and access /forum, it just complains about 404, rather than showing me the Flarum install page. I'm essentially using default Laravel Forge setup, except I have my main Laravel app as 1 site on Forge, and then I created a new "forum" site on forge to use for flarum. I'm certain I'm just missing something because I'm not every experienced with NGINX, but I know this must just be a wrong rewrite or something that I'm missing.

Thanks 🙂

My Nginx config

# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/default/before/*;

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name CENSORED;
    server_tokens off;
    root /home/forge/default/public;

    # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    # ssl_certificate;
    # ssl_certificate_key;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    include forge-conf/default/server/*;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/default-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
    
    location /forum {
        root /home/forge/forum/public;
        index index.php index.html;
        
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        
        location ~ \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
    }
}

# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/default/after/*;

luceos

You should install Flarum like you would Laravel. There are no changes necessary. But I wouldn't install it inside a subdirectory; you don't install multiple Laravel apps inside subfolders either.

Laravel is also served from public like Flarum. This community is, in fact, also deployed using forge and we didn't change anything really. Here is the deployment script:

cd /home/forge/discuss.flarum.org

# stops horizon for queue processing (configured directly on vm)
sudo -n supervisorctl stop discuss:*
# stops websockets (configured via forge)
sudo -n supervisorctl stop daemon-663936:*

# pull latest changes from git
git pull origin master

composer install --no-dev --no-interaction --prefer-dist -a --no-ansi

# in case flarum is installed
if [ -f config.php ]
then
    # run database changes
    php flarum migrate
    # clear the cache
    php flarum cache:clear
    
    if [ -d vendor/blomstra/cache-assets ]
    then
        # precompile new and invalidate old assets
        php flarum cache:assets --css --js --locales > /dev/null 2>&1
    fi
fi

# start horizon for queue processing
sudo -n supervisorctl start discuss:*
# start websockets
sudo -n supervisorctl start daemon-663936:*

# restart fpm to clear opcache
( flock -w 10 9 || exit 1
    echo 'Restarting FPM...'; sudo -S service $FORGE_PHP_FPM reload ) 9>/tmp/fpmlock

MonteCarlo

luceos
Thanks for providing that deployment script. Is very useful 😄. So would you say the better way to do it then, is to use a sub-domain? E.g forum.example.org instead of example.org/forum?

That was how I intended to do it for production, but at the moment I'm just using the IP Address while setting up and testing, and that's why I didn't use a sub-domain since as far as I know it isn't possible with IP Addresses.

luceos

MonteCarlo You could just use staging.yourdomain.com and forum.staging.yourdomain.com, isn't that much easier?

MonteCarlo

luceos Yeah that's what I'm in the process of setting up now 😄

Quick question, in your deploy script you posted, when you do git pull origin master how exactly does this work? Are you pulling the flarum source code?

Thanks! 🙂

luceos

MonteCarlo it's a repository based on flarum/flarum. Just install flarum and push that into git.