Are redirects a solution for Flarum location?

SatyraCorporation

Hi all - not sure if this is an issue in itself, I just want to make sure my approach here is solid enough.

I have installed Flarum yesterday but for some reason I couldn't make it so that the installation was in the root folder. I have edited the .php files, moved and removed the files but nothing worked so in the end my installation is at https://satyracorp.com/main/public/. I wanted to dive in the Flarum software and build my community as soon as possible so what I've done, I have added redirects from

https://satyracorp.com/ and https://satyracorp.com/main/ to the https://satyracorp.com/main/public/ link, where the board is.

My question is, is the folder structure of the website still accessible? Could someone access it, even if the links that lead to it have redirects to the board link?

Many thanks 😃

Braden

😃 😅
Hi, i also run a couple of sub domains, i will say.. inside these new folder's it's good you add a .htaccess file, with a special code. Most likely the htaccess file is already auto generated? Now you need that code. You can learn more here.

Valeyard

cPanel shared hosting - you can ask your host to do this for you it's easy to do in the back end, but you can't do it from the end-client panel.

However what you can do is make a subdomain and point its document root to /main/public/. You can use discuss, forum, forums, flarum, or whatever else you want.

But if you want it on the main domain, open a support ticket with your host to change the document root to /main/public/. Also make sure you ask them for jailed SSH access if you don't already have it - you need that to install and update plugins.

Make sure you edit the default .htaccess file located in /main/ and uncomment the lines that protect the sensitive files from being accessed by the public.