Getting Index Of / Tried looking into Docs But not Fixed

Hydiete4

I am trying to install Flarium on Ubuntu 18. My PHP version is 8.1 But all is see is Index Of / Files only.

I have tried multiple option but just lose like 4 hours of my time with no fix.

I have run the installer command "composer create-project flarum/flarum ." on var/www/site.com/

my site.com.conf file looks like this:
ServerAdmin info@site.com
ServerName site.com
ServerAlias www.site.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/site.com/public

I have edited the .htaccess file in the public folder like this:
below is the start or first line of the code
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

<Directory "/var/www/site.com/public">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

When I do php flarum info it says "Command "info" is not defined."

luceos

Hydiete4 the command info only works after the installation is completed. Can you open your site.com in the browser and continue installation there?

Hydiete4

luceos Thanks for the reply!

"the command info only works after the installation is completed."

Oh I see.

I cannot. It shows the IndexOf files only!
When I clicked on Public or site.php it shows "Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.1.0".

luceos

Can you share the full contents of your site conf from apache inside tripple backticks:

\`\`\`
conf
\`\`\`

without the \

Hydiete4

luceos Here you go sir:
BTW I am using Ubuntu 18 on digital ocean

<VirtualHost *:80>
    

        ServerAdmin info@site.com
        ServerName site.com
        ServerAlias www.site.com.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/site.com/public

 	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

luceos

Hydiete4 your host configuration does not have an index statement..

<VirtualHost *:80>
    

        ServerAdmin info@site.com
        ServerName site.com
        ServerAlias www.site.com.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/site.com/public
        index index.php

 	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

clarkwinkelmann

Have you updated the DocumentRoot of the 443 block with the same value?

I'm asking this because I see you shared the 80 block in a previous comment Hydiete4

If :80 is only used for redirecting to HTTPS, it you don't even need to customize it with Flarum config since Flarum would never be served from there.

Hydiete4

Hello @luceos,

I added that line on the conf file, and it crashed the server.

I received the error "The site can't be reached" on all the domains on the server

luceos

Hydiete4 right it has to be Index:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    

        ServerAdmin info@site.com
        ServerName site.com
        ServerAlias www.site.com.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/site.com/public
        Index index.php

 	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Hydiete4

luceos Same Issues.

Maybe that is because I have multiple sites on my ubuntu server and I have a common conf files for all sites.

And site.com.conf doesn't need an Index index.php file?

i am not too sure tho

luceos

Hydiete4 it seems I am rusty with Apache, the directive is DirectoryIndex not Index.

But if you have no idea how to configure a vhost, you'd better use a control panel.

Hydiete4

luceos
Sir, here is my apache2.conf file. I followed some youtube tuts to set up the server and all other sites are working fine. I just have problem with installing flarium
<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 All
Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>

Hydiete4

I updated the site.com.conf file with DirectoryIndex index.php

And still no change at all. The site is showing the IndexOf / page like before!

Hydiete4

I updated my php version to 8.1

Now when I click on site.php a blank page appears.

Also, I noticed the 'Public' folder is not showing up in the index of the page

Sorry I am asking a lot of questions!

Hydiete4

Hi @luceos,

I managed to install it successfully but I had to go to site.com/public folder to access the forum.

I want it to access using site.com

How do I do it?

I haven't touched any files of flarum so far.

clarkwinkelmann

Hydiete4 setting DocumentRoot to /public is the recommended way to take care of the public folder. In your configuration above it looked good so I'm not sure why it isn't working. Unless you have two public folders in one another? One from your host and one from Flarum? If so just set the DocumentRoot to /path/to/site.com/public/public

If you are unable to edit DocumentRoot you can follow https://docs.flarum.org/install#customizing-paths

Hydiete4

Yes,

The conf file looks like

DocumentRoot /var/www/site.com/public

But where in .htacess should I add the following line?
<Directory "/var/www/site.com/public">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Hydiete4

If I put the following line in the site.com.conf file

<Directory "/var/www/site.com/public">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Then I can access the site using site.com/public

If I remove it from .conf file and add it in public/.htaccess file then the public folder disappears from the Index of page.

I just want to access my forum on site.com... please help me fix this I am going crazy as I have been trying different fixes since this morning to night

Thanks guys for your kind help!

clarkwinkelmann

Hydiete4 are you able to share the full path to the index.php file of Flarum on your server filesystem so we know exactly how many levels of subfolders you have and whether you have a public_html folder provided by your host?

The Directory rule can go almost anywhere I think, except in .htaccess since it's the rule that enables the use of htaccess files. It's possible you already have a global rule that allows it on some hostings, in that case it's not needed. It shouldn't hurt to have it in more than one place.

Are you sure you are modifying the correct Apache configuration file? Is it normal it's on port 80 and not 443 for HTTPS? If you're going to enable HTTPS anyway it's probably a good idea to do it first so that you don't need to redo all the Apache configuration again for HTTPS later. If you install Flarum with HTTPS it also means you won't have to re-edit Flarum configuration later to change the URL.

Hydiete4

The full path is /var/www/site.com/public/index.php

I am using a Digital Ocean droplet running on Ubuntu 18 so I configured the server myself and there is no public_html folder.

I have a let's encrypt https set up and the port is 443 when I access the site.

Hydiete4

clarkwinkelmann Where can i find the 443 block?