Public folder installation causes major issues

Raksne

Installing Flarum into the default public folder is confusing and problematic. It requires extra configuration for hosting, and beginners will struggle to set it up correctly. The public folder structure makes the installation process unnecessarily complicated and frustrating

clarkwinkelmann

Raksne is there something we can help with? If so, please share details of the problem and which steps you have tried so far.

If this is general feedback can you perhaps share details regarding the hosting company or management panel where the issues happen? Did you try the ZIP download or Composer only? As long as you pick the ZIP file appropriate for your hosting there shouldn't be any extra steps.

I know it can be frustrating getting Flarum setup with Composer, particularly if you have never used or before. That's why the ZIP downloads were added later.

Raksne

clarkwinkelmann

When installing Flarum, it forces everything into the /public folder. This makes the site accessible only from domain.com/public, which looks unprofessional and confusing. Most other forum software works directly from the root without this issue. Having to manually move files and edit paths just to hide /public is frustrating. Why doesn’t Flarum provide a cleaner installation option by default?

luceos

Raksne this only happens when using composer. You can use the zip archive without public directory to quickly do an install without a public directory, see https://docs.flarum.org/install/#installing. You can see from that page that archive installation is the default (sorted above composer).

Raksne

luceos

Isn't this option available in Softaculous?