Flarum is difficult to setup

rahul

I have been trying to install Flarum, but it's too complicated a process. I have shared hosting and I have SSH access but the process is super complicated, or maybe the documentation is not understandable. I would suggest if someone can help me with this then that would be great.

Oshvam

rahul Let us know at what point in the process you were unable to continue and we can help you. You really only need a couple of commands and a database to be able to install it.

Edit: As a last resort, and not highly recommended, you can use Pockethold, but be aware that this may be a problem in the future.

https://github.com/UvUno/pockethold

rahul

Oshvam Hi thanks for the reply, I have installed the flarum using the composer command, but I don't know the later stage as the documentation does not explain it properly.

Also, I want to use the default steps rather than by-passing with other way

Oshvam

rahul rahul I will try to give you a quick summary:

Create your database in MySQL (All hosting allow you to do this). I recommend MariaDB if possible.

Once you have it done, run your SSH and navigate to the "public_html" folder with the command:

cd public_html

Once there run the command and wait for composer to finish installing everything:

composer create-project flarum/flarum

Then navigate to it:

yourdomain.com/public

And follow the steps to configure, as you will be prompted for the data from the database you created earlier. You don't really need to do anything else. The rest are configurations for the type of server you use: Apache, Nginx...etc.

If you want your new forum to show on yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.com/public follow these steps:

https://docs.flarum.org/install#customizing-paths

clarkwinkelmann

Oshvam whenever possible, the public folder should be taken care of BEFORE using the Flarum installation wizard, as it's one less step and makes sure extensions never see the wrong URL.

Reminder: check if your host has an option to customize the "DocumentRoot" / "(public) webroot" in the management panel, and set the path to Flarum including /public there. That way you rely on built-in webserver security rather than the rewrites module that could be unintentionally disabled.

ccc

Oshvam As you mentioned it worked and I actually wanted to serve flarum from directory other than public and for that I migrated the public folder contents into discuss directory to serve from url https://discuss.donate-books.org .

I followed https://docs.flarum.org/install#customizing-paths
but stuck at
Edit the site.php and update the paths in the following lines to reflect your new directory structure:

Even after defining like below:
'base' => '.../public_html/discuss/flarum',
'public' => '.../public_html/discuss',
storage settings remain untouched.

It is not working,

Config.php also corrected
'url' => 'https://discuss.donate-books.org',
'paths' =>
array (

rahul

Guys, why can't the composer installation be easy?

katos

rahul it is, however you’ve not provided the details of which step you’re struggling with and what the errors (if any) are that you’re getting.

We are happy to assist you but we need the details of which step you’re stuck and and what you’re seeing at present.

luceos

Driving a regular car is also difficult if you don't know how the clutch and gas pedals coexist. And as with a car you also need to know about the breaks, headlights and other things. But once you get started, it's very simple looking back on all of it.

So is Flarum. And yes we are making things easier, but as with cars getting automatic gears or self driving cars, these things take time to implement properly, security and simplest.