Installation errors

sandykho

Hi guys, when installing Flarum with SSH, Putty gave me this errors:

Created project in .
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiable by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2. 3.8].
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.2 requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiabl e by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8].
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.3 requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiabl e by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8].
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.4 requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiabl e by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8].
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.5 requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiabl e by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8].
- flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.6 requires intervention/image ^2.3.0 -> satisfiabl e by intervention/image[2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.3.7, 2.3.8].
- intervention/image 2.3.8 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.7 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.6 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.5 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.4 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.3 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.2 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.1 requires ext-fileinfo -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- intervention/image 2.3.0 requires ext-fileinfo * -> the requested PHP exte nsion fileinfo is missing from your system.
- Installation request for flarum/core ^0.1.0 -> satisfiable by flarum/core[ v0.1.0-beta, v0.1.0-beta.2, v0.1.0-beta.3, v0.1.0-beta.4, v0.1.0-beta.5, v0.1.0- beta.6].

To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in those .ini files:
- /etc/php56/php.ini
- /etc/php56/conf.d/imagick.ini
- /home/[user]/.php/5.6/phprc
You can also run php --ini inside terminal to see which files are used by PH P in CLI mode.

I though it has problem with image stuffs, so the installation should be okay, so I navigate to browser and found this error:
http://prntscr.com/czfyyt

can somebody help with this?
Thanks guys!!

Kulga

sandykho the requested PHP extension fileinfo is missing from your system.

This seems relevant

What php version and extensions do you have? (in command line - php -m; php -v)

sandykho

Hi Kulga!! Thanks for your reply!

Here is the php -m; php -v result:

[server]$ php -m; php -v
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
ereg
exif
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
iconv
imagick
imap
json
libxml
mbstring
mcrypt
mhash
mysql
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
pspell
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
soap
sockets
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter
xsl
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]

PHP 5.6.24 (cli) (built: Aug 3 2016 20:41:19)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies

Is there anything missing?

Thanks!!!

Kulga

Well, you defintely do not have the php extension fileinfo. Based on what I've read, it seems like it should of been installed by default. You have php5.6 so that's strange.

Try the instructions in this link
https://askubuntu.com/questions/759366/php-extension-fileinfo-install-in-ubuntu15-10

If it helps, let us know what worked (or didn't)

sandykho

Hi Kulga!

Thank you for your link! I've added the extension to the phprc file.

The process is going good, but my webhost killed the process mid way because composer is using too much resources...

Is there any possibility to install this in local server (wampserver) and copy the files later via FTP to webhost?

Thanks!

Kulga

sandykho Is there any possibility to install this in local server (wampserver) and copy the files later via FTP to webhost?

It's possible - I believe there are a few guides. However keeping it updated will be an issue as it will require a similar level of resources.

Curious, what hoster are you using?

Supposedly, using composer install instead of composer update is the better method as update uses a lot of memory identifying if dependencies / etc need to be updated while in a install there should be a file already defining that.¹
However, flarum is still in beta (closing towards going away from that however) so currently the correct manner is to use composer update

Perhaps when flarum is in stable, users will simply need to run composer install (or this will be done via web-interface)

sandykho

Kulga

I'm using Dreamhost, Kulga. I just requested to up the resources a bit and the support said it will takes about 20 minutes. I'll retry the composer install comment later.

I'm glad that flarum is almost hatch from beta! It's really a pain for people like me who didn't have the sufficient knowledge to test this forum out ? it looks so damn sexy and amazing, but installing it is also really hard ?

Will keep you updated.

Regards

Kulga

sandykho In the meantime, if you're just interested in seeing the in & outs, I host a "Demo" sandbox Flarum install called Devflarum. Feel free to play around on it

sandykho

Hi Kulga!

I've installed into my subdomain and it's working great!

Sadly, I keep getting my processes killed when I tried to install additional extension. ?

I guess it's not really suitable for shared hosting like Dreamhost.

XEngine

sandykho Nowadays, most people use VPN or Dedicated Machines since there are alot of cloud technology out there. Shared hostings are way too limited considering cloud machines.

You can use digitalocean, linode or google cloud platform as well as other cloud platforms and they are very cheap (like 5$ month in digitalocean). You can easily setup your LAMP environment just search google about that.