Can't install Flarum

Malaka

Hello.

I'm installing Flarum on VPS. Centos 7. Apache and PHP are connected (tried different versions 7.1, 7.4, 8). After command:
composer create-project flarum/flarum .

I go to the site and see this error

Warning: file_put_contents(/sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/storage/sessions/QXE4EHmWqp6tnnYNF0aGo08V2iNAOjd7pPk0Re7F): Failed to open stream: Permission denied in /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/illuminate/filesystem/Filesystem.php on line 187
Fatal error: Uncaught Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Exception\EmitterException: Output has been emitted previously; cannot emit response in /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Exception/EmitterException.php:24 Stack trace: #0 /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Emitter/SapiEmitterTrait.php(40): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Exception\EmitterException::forOutputSent() #1 /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Emitter/SapiEmitter.php(27): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter->assertNoPreviousOutput() #2 /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/RequestHandlerRunner.php(98): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter->emit(Object(Laminas\Diactoros\Response\HtmlResponse)) #3 /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Server.php(44): Laminas\HttpHandlerRunner\RequestHandlerRunner->run() #4 /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/public/index.php(26): Flarum\Http\Server->listen() #5 {main} thrown in /sites/WEBSITE_FOLDER/vendor/laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner/src/Exception/EmitterException.php on line 24

In Putty, I see everything is fine (I mean the installation there went like normal), there seems to be no errors, except for this
Package swiftmailer/swiftmailer is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use symfony/mailer instead.
but i think it's a minor mistake.

what can be done?

luceos

You need to chown the files to the web user. The web user cannot write files into the storage directory because the directory is owned by another user.

Malaka

luceos and how to do it? Sorry for the noob question. I did
chown -R apache:apache /home/tube/sites/website_folder
and
chmod 775 -R /home/tube/sites/website_folder
but it did not help

Malaka

I did
chmod 777 -R /home/tube/sites/website_folder/storage
Now everything works. But is it okay to put 777? Somewhere someone wrote that this is not safe or does this not apply to the storage folder?

Malaka

The problem remained, I decided to return it back to 775, since the problem was also with other folders. Earlier I changed the owner to Apache, but for some reason the server does not see this, because when I changed the rights to 777, it said:

The /sites/website_folder directory is not writable.
Please make sure your web server/PHP user has write access to this directory. Read the installation documentation for a detailed explanation and steps to resolve this error.

The /sites/website_folder/public/assets directory is not writable.
Please make sure your web server/PHP user has write access to this directory and its contents. Read the installation documentation for a detailed explanation and steps to resolve this erro

luceos

apache is usually not the web user, it's usually www-data or something, the apache configuration can tell you.. Are you using a control panel by any chance?

Malaka

luceos i use control panel brainycp, i do not have "www-data" user (i tried using it), only "apache" user (it seems to be an analogue of "www-data" in centos).

Malaka

I reinstalled the server, installed Ubuntu 20.
Installed LAMP.
Installed Flarum.

The site is working, but now with any action I get an error:
The requested resource was not found.
Mod-rewrite included. Everything is fine with the config file.
Screenshot:

php flarum info

root@tube:/var/www/html# php flarum info
Flarum core 1.3.1
PHP version: 7.4.3
MySQL version: 8.0.29-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, pcntl, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, sodium, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, FFI, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, json, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Zend OPcache
+----------------------+---------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions    |         |        |
+----------------------+---------+--------+
| ID                   | Version | Commit |
+----------------------+---------+--------+
| flarum-approval      | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-bbcode        | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-emoji         | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-lang-english  | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-flags         | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-likes         | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-lock          | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-markdown      | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-mentions      | v1.3.1  |        |
| flarum-statistics    | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-sticky        | v1.3.0  |        |
| flarum-subscriptions | v1.3.1  |        |
| flarum-suspend       | v1.3.1  |        |
| flarum-tags          | v1.3.0  |        |
+----------------------+---------+--------+
Base URL: http://website.in
Installation path: /var/www/html
Queue driver: sync
Mail driver: mail
Debug mode: off

I moved the public folder to the root of the site, did everything as written in the instructions. This error, which is higher - it was both before (website.in/public) and after (website.in/) the address change.

Malaka

I solved all problems.
It seems there was a problem with the mod-rewriting (actually I just googled and tried different methods, but apparently the problem was with this one), although I thought that everything was fine with it.
If anyone encounters a similar problem you can try
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Try changing None to All

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

.................

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

then do this
sudo service apache2 restart