Problem with uploaded assets and files

Devonab

Hey everyone ! 👋

I installed Flarum on a Synology connected to my network. It runs via an IP address and works perfectly except for one small detail...

When I make CSS changes (admin -> appearance -> Customize styles), when I modify an avatar or upload a file, they don't go to the public folder but to the root of the folder, in a folder with a strange name.
Here my folders :

B72C5C_V : the strange folder with all new minified assets and uploaded files
flarum : the app with storage, vendor, etc.
public : the public folder

My flarum/config.php :

<?php return array (
  'debug' => false,
  'database' => 
  array (
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'port' => 3306,
    'database' => '',
    'username' => '',
    'password' => '',
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => 'docu_',
    'strict' => false,
    'engine' => 'InnoDB',
    'prefix_indexes' => true,
  ),
  'url' => 'http://192.168.2.203/public',
  'paths' => 
  array (
    'api' => 'api',
    'admin' => 'admin',
  ),
  'headers' => 
  array (
    'poweredByHeader' => true,
    'referrerPolicy' => 'same-origin',
  ),
);

My flarum/site.php :

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
    'base' => __DIR__,
    'public' => __DIR__.'../public',
    'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
]);

My public/index.php :

$site = require '../flarum/site.php';

In public/assets/ I have the files that were created during the installation.
And in the B72C5C_V/public/assets folder, I have the new ones :

Of course, I have never created a "B72C5C_V" folder and I don't really see where it comes from... The cache has been cleared. 😶

Thank you in advance for your help. 😃

luceos

This is very odd, first off can you remove the paths entry completely in your config.php, that's unecessary.

So how are we going to trace how this happens? Can you:

delete the B72C5C~V folder, then hit the forum, does the same directory get created
if not, can you also clear public/assets/*.js* and hit the forum, does the directory get created

Devonab

Hey, thanks for your answer.

If I delete the B72C5C~V and reload the forum, the same directory get created
If I delete public/assets/*.js and reload the forum, I get 404 errors in the console.

So I have the impression that everything is created in the folder with the strange name instead of in public/assets.
Is there a place where the path for assets is defined?

Thanks again.

luceos

Devonab it uses public from flarum/site.php.

I am really confused, I've never seen this happen before. What if you install Flarum in a completely new, lose directory without any path mutations?

Devonab

luceos
I just tested by installing a new flarum without changing anything. It works indeed if I keep the default structure of Flarum. I had done this so as not to have an ugly URL with my IP like: http://192.168.2.203/flarum/public/.

What I find odd is that on the same Syno I have another Flarum (older, version 1.0 from what I can see) running. On this one I also changed the paths following the same logic as defined in my first post and it works fine.

Devonab

Good news : problem solved.
If anyone has a similar problem, please check your site.php.

My old flarum/site.php

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
    'base' => __DIR__,
    'public' => __DIR__.'../public',
    'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
]);

The new one :

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
    'base' => __DIR__,
    'public' => __DIR__.'/../public',
    'storage' => __DIR__.'/storage',
]);

On the other hand, I'm not sure why not putting a slash creates this weird folder. 🙃
Thank you for your time in finding a solution.

luceos

Devonab OH WOW! I should have seen that! You're brilliant for discovering that little slash.