Extension Manager missing in Flarum Features

deefbak

Issue:
The Features Manager / Extension Manager is missing from the Flarum admin panel.

Steps Taken:
I installed Flarum through composer, immediately following I installed the extension manager using composer as well.
Created mySQL db, Set up Flarum, and checked the admin panel but did not see an extension manager listed in the features.

I did not do an URL Re-direct or any additional config during the setup process.

Documentation referenced/looked through trying to resolve on my own;
https://docs.flarum.org/internal/extension-manager/
https://docs.flarum.org/extensions/
https://docs.flarum.org/install/

Also searched this forum's posts on extensions and found information that I vaguely understood but could not quite figure out.
note that i'm a complete newbie at this, if something isn't directly clear i'll need to ask where/what/how to find it.

ernestdefoe

deefbak Did you run the composer command in the correct directory?

deefbak

I've figured it out.
The installation documentation is unclear and should be fixed - See Below.

https://docs.flarum.org/install/#installing-using-the-command-line-interface
The confusion below is the documentation does not explicitly tell the user to change directories before installing the extension manager, see below quote from the above page:

Afterwards, run this command in an empty location that you want Flarum to be installed in:

composer create-project flarum/flarum .

While this command is running, you can configure your web server. You will need to make sure your webroot is set to /path/to/your/forum/public, and set up URL Rewriting as per the instructions below.

When everything is ready, navigate to your forum in a web browser and follow the instructions to complete the installation.
If you wish to install and update extensions from the admin dashboard, you need to also install the Extension Manager extension.

composer require flarum/extension-manager:*

However, reading https://docs.flarum.org/extensions/ says the following:

If you do not have the extension manager installed and you wish to install it, you can do so by running the following command in your Flarum directory:

composer require flarum/extension-manager:"*"

First, cd Flarum then use composer require for extension manager will resolve the issue.

luceos

deefbak First, cd Flarum then use composer require for extension manager will resolve the issue.

That is not true. Because:

deefbak composer create-project flarum/flarum .

This exact command forces installation in the current directory, signified by the ending .. If you leave out the . at the end, it will indeed incorrectly install in a subdirectory called flarum. I assume that's what went wrong while you installed it.

deefbak

luceos Hm, I see that now - I didn't recognize there was a difference on the Flarum documentation from Packagist's page. Since I've been copy/pasting commands into command line, it's on Packagist where I picked up the missing .
https://packagist.org/packages/flarum/flarum

Thanks, I've been stubbing my toes every step of the way but that's honestly how I learn.
I've also had to run all commands as composer2 as none complete as composer.

ernestdefoe

deefbak having to run things as composer2 is something to do with how your host has things setup.