Installing on Site5

Barliesque

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to install Flarum on a Site5 account I have. I believe all the necessary technologies are supported, but I'm flummoxed as to how to follow the installation instructions I've found. I've managed to download PHP to my home computer and installed Composer. From there, Composer complains of missing extensions when I tried installing Flarum locally.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
David

jordanjay29

Can you paste in your terminal log from when you run composer?

luceos

The extensions missing are most presumably php extensions (php-ext-gd etc). Having no experience with php on windows whatsoever I hope this bit helps you solve it.

Barliesque

Here's what composer had to say...

C:\>composer create-project flarum/flarum C:/Flarum --stability=beta
Installing flarum/flarum (v0.1.0-beta.6)
  - Installing flarum/flarum (v0.1.0-beta.6)
    Loading from cache

Created project in C:/Flarum
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 illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.2 requires illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.3 requires illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.4 requires illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.5 requires illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - flarum/core v0.1.0-beta.6 requires illuminate/support 5.1.* -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v5.1.1, v5.1.13, v5.1.16, v5.1.2, v5.1.20, v5.1.22, v5.1.25, v5.1.28, v5.1.30, v5.1.31, v5.1.41, v5.1.6, v5.1.8].
    - illuminate/support v5.1.8 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.6 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.41 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.31 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.30 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.28 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.25 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.22 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.20 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.2 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.16 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.13 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring is missing from your system.
    - illuminate/support v5.1.1 requires ext-mbstring * -> the requested PHP extension mbstring 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:
    - C:\php-5.6.28\php.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

Barliesque

...okay, making some progress. I've enabled all of the extensions included with PHP and run it again with much more promising results. After a long series of installation steps, it concluded with this:

symfony/console suggests installing symfony/event-dispatcher ()
filp/whoops suggests installing symfony/var-dumper (Pretty print complex values better with var-dumper available)
filp/whoops suggests installing whoops/soap (Formats errors as SOAP responses)
paragonie/random_compat suggests installing ext-libsodium (Provides a modern crypto API that can be used to generate random bytes.)
illuminate/support suggests installing jeremeamia/superclosure (Required to be able to serialize closures (~2.0).)
illuminate/support suggests installing symfony/var-dumper (Improves the dd function (2.7.*).)
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
illuminate/cache suggests installing illuminate/redis (Required to use the redis cache driver (5.1.*).)
illuminate/filesystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Required to use the Flysystem S3 driver (~1.0).)
illuminate/filesystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Required to use the Flysystem Rackspace driver (~1.0).)
illuminate/database suggests installing fzaninotto/faker (Required to use the eloquent factory builder (~1.4).)
illuminate/database suggests installing illuminate/console (Required to use the database commands (5.1.*).)
illuminate/database suggests installing illuminate/pagination (Required to paginate the result set (5.1.*).)
illuminate/mail suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Required to use the SES mail driver (~3.0).)
illuminate/mail suggests installing jeremeamia/superclosure (Required to be able to serialize closures (~2.0).)
intervention/image suggests installing ext-imagick (to use Imagick based image processing.)
intervention/image suggests installing intervention/imagecache (Caching extension for the Intervention Image library)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v2)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 (Allows you to use S3 storage with AWS SDK v3)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-azure (Allows you to use Windows Azure Blob storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-cached-adapter (Flysystem adapter decorator for metadata caching)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-dropbox (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-eventable-filesystem (Allows you to use EventableFilesystem)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-rackspace (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-sftp (Allows you to use SFTP server storage via phpseclib)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-webdav (Allows you to use WebDAV storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/flysystem-ziparchive (Allows you to use ZipArchive adapter)
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing mongodb/mongodb (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server via PHP Driver)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-amqplib/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib)
monolog/monolog suggests installing php-console/php-console (Allow sending log messages to Google Chrome)
monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing sentry/sentry (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server)
s9e/text-formatter suggests installing ext-xsl (Enables the XSLT renderer)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

luceos

Barliesque successful installation. By the way you only needed extension mbstring.

Barliesque

luceos By the way you only needed extension mbstring.

I enabled mbstring alone at first, but other dependency messages came up: Illuminate and Intervention

luceos successful installation.

Okay, so now I have an installation on my local computer. I zipped up my local Flarum folder, uploaded that to my Site5 folder with permissions set to 755, and then extracted the files and removed the zip archive. I noticed that all the files at the root of the folder ended up with 644 permission, so I changed permissions on index.php to 755, left the others at 644. ...and now Flarum successfully starts up on my page! -- with an installation dialog.

From this point, hopefully I can move forward with the instructions on the installation pages, but I'll document here any unexpected experiences that come up.

@luceos @jordanjay29 Thanks for your help.

Barliesque

In my Site5 control panel, I created a new MySQL database and user.

Back on my new Flarum installation page, I entered the database details, leaving localhost unchanged. For the Table Prefix I suppose I could have left it blank, since this was a brand new database devoted to the forum, but I chose "flarum_" in case that database needs to be merged with my WordPress database at a later date when integration becomes available.

I submitted those setup details, and voila, I have a beautiful new Flarum forum!
Honestly, I was expecting a lot more to do. ?

Barliesque

Okay, I've hit a bit of a roadblock getting the SMTP settings right -- at least I assume that's what's causing the "Oops! Something went wrong..." message appearing when trying to sign up a new test user.

Based on the generic info here: https://kb.site5.com/email/email-overview/ can someone tell me what goes into which field? I think variations in terminology are throwing me.

Barliesque

After consulting with site5, I was able to correct at least some of my mistakes. Currently I have...

SMTP Server Driver:  mail
SMTP Server Host:  <server name>.accountservergroup.com
SMTP Server Port: 2525
SMTP Server Encryption: 
SMTP Account Username: <e-mail address>
SMTP Account Password: <password>

I presume http:// isn't necessary for the Server Host. Not sure what to put in for Encryption.

As a side-note, I'd like to request a "Send Test Message" button to be added to this form. ?

luceos

Barliesque SMTP Server Driver: mail
SMTP Server Host: <server name>.accountservergroup.com
SMTP Server Port: 2525
SMTP Server Encryption:
SMTP Account Username: <e-mail address>
SMTP Account Password: <password>

the driver should probably be smtp and encryption has to be tls/ssl from I can read from their docs. Everything else above is ok.

If you can't access your forum admin because you broke it, simply access the database directly and edit the settings table ?

Barliesque

Oh dear! After trying numerous variations on those settings, the whole forum is suddenly inaccessible, coming up with an HTTP ERROR 500 ...did I try too many times?? ?

Had a look in flarum.log and found this several times:
[2016-11-11 01:41:31] production.DEBUG: exception 'Flarum\Http\Exception\MethodNotAllowedException' in /home/barliesq/public_html/_vegebotz/forum/vendor/flarum/core/src/Http/Middleware/DispatchRoute.php:65
...not that I expect that to be a surprise given incorrect/missing SMTP values.

Barliesque

luceos Thank you. I'm not sure which incorrect setting caused the forum to throw a 500 error -- I was afraid I'd have to do a reinstall, but just changing the settings via phpmyadmin got things running again.

However, I still am not able to sign up a new user with the registration form, which always responds "Oops! Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again." My assumption is that the mail settings are incorrect and causing this message when Flarum tries to send a confirmation email -- without a button to send a test email, I can't be totally certain. Might there be some other problem that could cause this?

Barliesque

luceos and encryption has to be tls/ssl

...ah ha! Maybe I was reading too you post too literally when I set the encryption to tls/ssl rather than tls or ssl but in any case, setting it to just tls seems to have moved things along -- to a new error message. Well, the first time I tried, I got this:

"code": 500,
"title": "Internal server error",
"detail": "exception 'Swift_TransportException' with message 'Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with 
username \"xxxxx@vegebotz.com\" using 2 possible authenticators' in 
/home/xxxxxxxxxx/public_html/_vegebotz/forum/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/Esmtp/AuthHandler.php:181

Now, every time I try, I get this:

POST http://www.vegebotz.com/forum/register

null

luceos

Barliesque set debug mode to true on your config.php and then check the exact error. Without it we cannot help you properly.

Barliesque

luceos That helps! Thank you.

Okay, so the error coming back is:

"code": 500,
      "title": "Internal server error",
      "detail": "exception 'Swift_TransportException' with message 'Connection could not be established 
with host uscentral406.accountservergroup.com [php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or 
service not known #0]  in /home/barliesq/public_html/_vegebotz/forum/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php:269'

Let me know if you need the rest of the stack trace.

luceos

weird the error says it cannot resolve the hostname uscentral406.accountservergroup.com to an ip, but it actually does resolve to 23.91.71.214 and responds..

I'd guess best thing to do is contact support and give them exactly that stack trace ?

Barliesque

luceos weird the error says it cannot resolve the hostname uscentral406.accountservergroup.com to an ip, but it actually does resolve to 23.91.71.214 and responds..

Okay -- but, how did you see that it resolves to that ip address and responds?

jordanjay29

Barliesque You can use PING through any terminal/command line program connected to the internet.

ping uscentral406.accountservergroup.com
PING uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=52.9 ms
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=53.9 ms
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=53.4 ms
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=52.9 ms
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=52.6 ms
64 bytes from uscentral406.accountservergroup.com (23.91.71.214): icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=53.2 ms

luceos

jordanjay29 actually I've used dig.