Install Flarum in a Sub directory folder

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.

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

rnovino

hmmm almost done fixing , Now I don't receive any errors but when I logged in it always redirects to the home screen of the forum which is the mydomain.com/forum

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.

rnovino

blurkness haha you where just a few minutes late after I successfully solved the issue. But much appreciated for the code its also the same fix ?

rnovino

blurkness I have the posted the process but it still 'Awaiting approval'

rnovino

FINALLY!!! after long hours of debugging I fixed it here is the explanation,

Since again I am using http://easyengine.io for my wordpress main site and I want to install flarum in the sub directory. there are already configurations from the easyengine that is the same with the config on flarum so I needed to dig into their files since they organize the folders the used 'Include' so I needed to dig into all that files and see which code is already there from the original code of flarum that is located here http://flarum.org/docs/installation/

BEFORE

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

location /flarum {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

location ~* \.php$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY ""; # Fix for https://httpoxy.org/ vulnerability
    fastcgi_index index.php;
}

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)";

this is the only code I needed to paste ony my /etc/nginx/mydomain.com

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; }
}

to they trim all down all the other codes since again they organized it to different files and folders ?

also thanks to this site he has the right code for me http://shinyidol.us/2016/05/30/setup-flarum-on-digital-ocean/
but then he didn't explain too much of the procedure since he uses digital ocean and I use linode server and I think his tutorial if for fresh install.

I'll try to do a tutorial soon for people who has the same scenario of using Easyengine and Flarum for their sub directory

thanks for all the feedbacks and help ?

rnovino

a new error showed up LOL!

POST https://xxx/forum/api/settings

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "status": "401",
      "code": "permission_denied"
    }
  ]
}
You

all folders have permission to 0755

and this error occured after I clicked the dark mode in the appearance section

blurkness

rnovino Check the URL. I was with this issue when my base url are configured with www and accessing without it was causing the issues with API.

rnovino These numbers are normal and permissions fine. It's just cached configs.

rnovino

upon checking the chrome console it shows says

 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
 https://xxx/forum/assets/forum-b02e7a77.css

I checked the folder and it generated this weird numbers

 drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data    4096 Jul 24 19:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data    4096 Jul 24 19:20 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data  734335 Jul 24 19:31 admin-21c07609.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data   11635 Jul 24 19:31 admin-en-df77f08d.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data    4096 Mar 28 05:04 avatars
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data    4096 Jul 24 00:39 fonts
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1328481 Jul 24 00:39 forum-c49381f5.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data   17044 Jul 24 00:39 forum-en-df77f08d.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data     141 Jul 24 19:31 rev-manifest.json

now whole site is unformatted ?

rnovino

blurkness I use non WWW which is mydomain.com/forum ? what fix should I do?

rnovino

blurkness yup when I added in the url the WWW.mydomain.com its working how to fix this?

UPDATE: its now fixed it seem it has some caching happening is it because my main site has a caching or flarum has a different caching mechanism?

JohnAwoyele

rnovino how did you fix it

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