Help me remove /public from url. i tried but so far no results

samuelnjenga

I recently successfully installed flarum to my domain via softaculous on a Namecheap shared hosting. However, I have tried all the methods of remove /public from the url, but I keep breaking the site. Below is the file structure.

/home/goodvurf

/forum
/domain.com
/storage
/vendor

I moved all files from public to /forum and deleted the public folder.
I have edited index.php - $site = require './site.php';
I have edited site.php to

return Flarum\Foundation\Site::fromPaths([
'base' => DIR,
'public' => DIR,
'storage' => DIR.'/storage',

I have also edited the config file to change the url. however, after making all these changes, am getting a blank screen with Index of /public/

Can you help me solve this problem?

clarkwinkelmann

samuelnjenga if you are installing Flarum in a subfolder, you should put all of Flarum inside the subfolder and then follow https://docs.flarum.org/install/#customizing-paths

If this is a fresh installation, the easiest solution is to download the ZIP without public path (Public path: No) and place it in your subfolder.

samuelnjenga

clarkwinkelmann Thank you. It worked!

Chope

Installing with composer will remove headaches like this.
I suggest you nevigate to your public folder using terminal and run the composer as per the installation instruction.