Installation via SSH and some advice

Anonymous76

Hi everyone,

I recently started using Flarum and I'm very happy with the results. Looking at the documentation, I installed it via SSH in a folder outside of public_html and used the following commands:
composer create-project flarum/flarum chmod -R 775 storage chmod -R 775 public/assets find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec chmod 644 {} \; find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Then I created an index.php file in public_html with the following code:
`<?php

$site = require dirname(DIR) . '/folder/site.php';

$server = new Flarum\Http\Server($site);
$server->listen();`

Since I'm new to the platform, I'm wondering: Did I do everything right?

Is there anything I should do that I haven't done yet?

What security actions and extensions do you recommend?

KBExit

Anonymous76 you don't need to create a php file if you install Flarum and have your root directory point to your /public folder. I don't think I've seen anyone create a php file the way you did for an install.

Anonymous76

KBExit Hey friend.

So the recommendation is to use the root directory as /folder/public?

KBExit

Anonymous76 you can choose whatever folder you want as root. You just have to make your web server point to it.

Anonymous76

KBExit
Okay. So the way I did it, or this way, doesn't change anything, right?

KBExit

Anonymous76 the instructions don't mention anything about creating an index file so I would change how you installed it.
The only thing it mentions is modifying the already existing index.php file if you're using custom paths.