Install Flarum in a Sub directory folder

rnovino

Is there a tutorial on how to install FLARUM in a subfolder directory of my current website I am using easyengine with a primary Wordpress on my root directory I want to install Flarum on my /forum folder can anyone share a tutorial for me to follow it will be much appreciated ?

rnovino

I installed it now and this error showed ?

rnovino

any help??????

Kulga

Are you running the command inside the directory you want it installed?
Do you have read / write permissions to the root directory?

rnovino

I successfully installed flarum now, my problem now is that the admin dashboard is inaccessible it always points me to the main sitie which is maindoamin.com my forum is located at maindomain.com/forum. i've read other tutorials here but it didn't help.

I am using NGINX server , via easyengine since my main site is powered by wordpress .

do I need to install apache also? to make flarum run? what are the files that I will modify?

datitisev

rnovino You will need to modify config.php's URL field to the forums URL including subdirectory

rnovino

datitisev where is this located?

rnovino

datitisev Here is my config file

?php return array (
  'debug' => true,
  'database' =>
  array (
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'database' => 'xxx',
    'username' => 'xxx',
    'password' => 'xxx',
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => 'xxx',
    'strict' => false,
  ),
  'url' => 'https://xxx/forum',
  'paths' =>
  array (
    'api' => 'api',
    'xxx' => 'xxx',
  ),
);

the location of my flarum is in the /forum folder on my root web directory (wordpress)

pnobbe

rnovino The root folder of your flarum install.

pnobbe

rnovino As long as Flarum is accessible at all it means your error is not related to Apache. How are you accessing the admin panel? If you are trying to go there by typing in the URL and it redirects you to the homepage then you might not have admin priviliges.

rnovino

pnobbe even I login now all errors but homepage of flarum is showing I just can't access any other parts of the flarum forum I made.

rnovino

I think the problem is in my nginx config file can you check what I did wrong?

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
listen 443 ssl spdy;
listen [::]:443 ssl spdy;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxx/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxx/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_timeout 1d;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:20m;

ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK';
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000;

ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;

## verify chain of trust of OCSP response using Root CA and Intermediate certs
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/xxx/chain.pem;
resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 valid=86400;
resolver_timeout 10;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/xxx.access.log rt_cache;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/xxx.error.log;
    root /var/www/xxx/htdocs;



   index index.php index.html index.htm;
   include common/wpfc.conf;
   include common/wpcommon.conf;
   include common/locations.conf;
}

server {
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=2592000;
    rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

location /forum/ {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$args;
   location /forum/ { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$query_string; }
   location /forum/api { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/api.php?$query_string; }
   location /forum/admin { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/admin.php?$query_string; }
}

location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }

location /flarum {
        deny all;
        return 404;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri /forum/index.php;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
    location ~* \.html$ {
        expires -1;
    }

location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
    expires 1M;
    add_header Pragma public;
    add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}

gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types application/atom+xml
           application/javascript
           application/json
           application/vnd.ms-fontobject
           application/x-font-ttf
           application/x-web-app-manifest+json
                         application/xhtml+xml
           application/xml
           font/opentype
           image/svg+xml
           image/x-icon
           text/css
           text/plain
           text/xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

}

blurkness

rnovino Try this

location /forum {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$args;
   location /forum { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$query_string; }
   location /forum/api { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/api.php?$query_string; }
   location /forum/admin { try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/admin.php?$query_string; }
}

location /forum/flarum {
        deny all;
        return 404;
}

I just removed the slash at the end of the locations and fixed the deny for flarum folder.

Make sure you are using www or not in your config.php. If the config is configured with www then you must access only with it and create a redirect without it.

pnobbe

rnovino I had a similar problem when I installed Flarum in a subdirectory. Try seeing if changing the ownership of the Flarum root directory + subdirectories works.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data <FLARUM ROOT DIR>

EDIT: I think this might work because Nginx runs Flarum under the user 'www-data'. If that user does not have permission then it won't be able to read/write and thus result in errors when accessing certain pages or trying to perform actions.

rnovino

pnobbe www-data:www-data

I already did that still having the same error

pnobbe

rnovino Is there any way you could provide a more detailed error message? Does anything show up in the error logs? My previous suggestion was based on something I encountered myself which had the same symptoms but it's hard to identify the real problem without more details.

rnovino

pnobbe check my nginx configuration

pnobbe

rnovino I can't really any mistakes in there. I'm not experienced with Nginx.

If you could look into the error logs then I could probably help you out more, otherwise I'm afraid I can't.

rnovino

pnobbe what logs do you need and where to find it?

pnobbe

rnovino Since you're using Nginx the error logs will most likely be located at

/var/log/nginx/nginx_error.log

rnovino

pnobbe no errors found on my nginx, php, fpm