Installing through Plesk ?

wwwill

Hi there !
I wanted to install Flarum on the website of my makerspace/hackerspace. We, for now, have a shared server running under Plesk.
So it can launch (more or less) Composer commands.
So I downloaded the actual branch on Github, and unzipped it at the root of my subdomain.
Then I went on the Plesk interface, and analyzed the applications. It found the composer.json file.
And that way I could install the dependencies ("composer install" command). Unfortunately there is a bug on my interface so I cannot get the log from Composer, but the vendor directory is created.
Now, if I try to go to my website, I have an internal servor error.
I checked few things :
- I verified if the mod_rewrite was active, and yes, it is.
- I saw on the forum that there is an issue with the version 1.3 of Zend Stratigility. But I don't know how to properly install the 1.2.1 version so I tried to replace the directory, and it doesn't change anything.

Any idea ?
Thanks a lot !

AmauryPi

Flarum is not installed from the zip archive, but using composer directly (cf. installation documentation). That's maybe one part of the problem.

As for Zend Stratigility you may try to requires it with the correct version using composer, too. All dependencies, including Flarum Core, are managed through composer. You should never open the vendor directory.

wwwill

I do NOT have access to SSH/command line. But I can use composer through Plesk.
Like described on the Plesk manual, but I don't know if that can make anything good for Flarum.
https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/12.5/administrator-guide/website-management/websites-and-domains/web-applications/managing-php-project-dependencies-with-composer.74969/

AmauryPi

I see in the documentation:

Plesk offers two ways to use Composer:
- Through the command line. Refer to the Composer documentation for instructions.

If you can execute composer commands (in the case you cannot execute all commands but composer ones are OK), you should be able to install it like in the documentation linked above.
Else, I suggest you to install Composer on your locale machine, follow the documentation to grab all dependencies and create the files, then copy all the files to your hosting.

wwwill

AmauryPi Thanks. I cannot write any command. I will try to install it locally and export the files.
I didn't think it could work, as I thought the dependencies were server-dependent.

wwwill

It seems that the way I described actually worked...
But the issue is about Multiviews.

.htaccess: Option MultiViews not allowed here

So, it seems that my shared host doesn't allow Multiviews.

I tried to comment the line in the .htaccess. It allowed me to create the database and a user, but after that, I can't display the forum as I get 404 errors on js or css files.

2016-11-18 00:39:45 Error xx.xxx.xxx.xxx 404 GET /index.php/assets/forum-bd8e7233.css HTTP/1.0

Any idea ?

jordanjay29

Exactly how do you use composer without access to the command lines? I've never used Plesk, maybe if you showed us a screenshot or manual from Plesk on how it's done, we can further assist you.

spyros

Having used Plesk in the past for several years, and having installed flarum a few times, I don't think you did things right, by installing locally and then moving the files online.

Yes, you can do that but you still need to use the composer! I'd suggest that you ask your hosting provider to allow you to use ssh - they all normally allow access to at least one IP.

wwwill

spyros How would you install it using Plesk then ?
As I said, it seems that the way I did actually worked.
I got the directory vendor and all the dependencies installed.

But when I check the logs of my server (Apache), I get an error message when I try to connect to the :

.htaccess: Option MultiViews not allowed here

So I guess the error is not about the installation itself but about the Apache configuration for url_rewritting
So maybe the configuration file should be

AllowOverride Options=All,MultiViews

not

AllowOverride All

as it is written in the Flarum documentation.

What do you think ?

wwwill

Still working on it ?

So the line in the .htaccess

Options -MultiViews

is actually to disable the MultiViews from Apache, and as mine is not active, then I think I can comment the line safely.

Then I saw that I had many warning messages because of the deprecated option in the last version of Zend-Stratigility. As I cannot write any command line and I don't know how to edit the composer.json or composer.lock files, then I replaced the directory. No warning messages anymore.

But I think I have an issue with the .htaccess file.
If I try to access to my forum using http://forum.domain.tld, I got a 404 error (on GET / HTTP/1.0)
But when I try to access to my forum using http://forum.domain.tld/index.php, I got a 200 reply. And then it doesn't work because the js and css files are looked for with this path

http://forum.domain.tld/index.php/assets/forum-en-deb59aba.js

and that leads to 404 errors on all of them (of course).

See, I am really doing my best ? ... but I still suck ! ?

spyros

My advice is: ask for SSH access from your hosting provider.
You haven't installed the script properly and it won't work!
But that's just my 2p in the discussion, do as you wish :-)
I'm just trying to help!