Installing on Hostinger

MikeLundahl

So I know there are other threads. But none of them seem to be working for me.

I'm trying to install Flarum on Hostingers cloud service. I'm using Composer2 and installing it under a ./forum folder. But I want to serve it from the root (or public_html in Hostinger's case). I've added a index.php that looks like this (removed the comments to make it shorter):

<?php

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

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server($site);
$server->listen();

use Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->build();

The site.php file (without the comments):

<?php

require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

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

The config.php file:

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

I get this page with the current configuration:
"Something went wrong while trying to load the full version of this site. Try hard-refreshing this page to fix the error."

Any ideas? I would highly appreciate help with this to set it up correctly.

luceos

Your index contains Elasticsearch code? That is not how Flarum ships and I expect this to throw the error as using an import (use) is required at the top of the file.

Also understand that:

use Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->build();

require autoload already happens from within the $site require
your code will be executed after all of Flarum finished, including sending the response

So please clear out this custom code and see if Flarum operates normally before making modifications. And should you consider making modifications, ask for advice inDev .

MikeLundahl

luceos

Thanks, Luceos! I did a clean install. I managed to get it to work with Hostinger by moving the public files to the public_html folder and pointing the path to that. Not sure if this is the best practice, though. But maybe it's a question more suited for the Dev section.