pikapods extension manager

Retcon01

luceos With the extension manager now a thing, and a recent question related to softaculous making me aware about similar issues with softaculous installs, I decided to reach out to their team to inform them about the changes to our installation procedures and the introduction of the extension manager.

As a consequence, future versions of Softaculous will now install Flarum with the extension manager by default. The ability to natively install extensions should empower these users without having to rely on composer.

Can this be done with PikaPods as well @luceos? They also offer one click installation of Flarum, but no SSH access, which means contacting support to have extensions installed. Having the installation with PikaPods include the Extension Manager would be a game changer.

GreXXL

Retcon01 if their installation package includes the extension manager it should work.

Retcon01

GreXXL it does not seem to include it. I spun up an instance and there was no extension manager.

luceos

Retcon01 I've just reached out to PikaPods with some information on how to include the extension manager and a request to do so for future installments through their platform.

m3nu

Hey all, Manu from PikaPods here. Just added this extension to our install script and it's being added to all new pods. Feedback welcome. Also wondering if we should apply this to all existing Flarum pods too (after notifying everyone)?

luceos

m3nu Hello Manu, appreciate your proactiveness 👏

ernestdefoe

m3nu might not be a bad idea.

Retcon01

m3nu Awesome, speedy response. I've created several pods with Flarum to test and attempting to install any of the extensions through the extension manager breaks the site, giving an Error 500.

m3nu

Retcon01 I got the same at first. It worked when using the version at the end. Like datlechin/flarum-copy-links:"*"

Not sure if this issue is specific to PikaPods.

luceos

Retcon01 it would be helpful if you could check the storage/logs folder, there should be a log file specifically for the extension manager with valuable information on why it fails.

m3nu

Retcon01 Happy to report that I already found the issue: I didn't correctly install the Extension Manager extension in the context of the Docker image we use. This is now fixed and I wasn't able to trigger any error while installing a few extensions.

m3nu

We found one more issue in that extensions installed via Extension Manager end up within the container and don't survive a pod rebuild. Still need to look into this.

Retcon01

m3nu I can't wait until you guys get it working. I will be first in line to set one up.

m3nu

It's working, but for now we will need one more step to keep extensions across pod updates and edits. I've documented it here: https://docs.pikapods.com/apps/flarum#installing-extensions

We'll try to work with the image maintainer to look into ways to simplify this in the future.

Retcon01

Messing around with a Flarum Pod now. Everything seems to work great. Adding extensions to "list" via FTP is not a huge deal, but I understand the desire to eliminate that step for convenience sake.