Need help installing on Digital Ocean

uing

Another try: new droplet and followed this guide step by step (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1951-a-flarum-installation-guide-for-dummies-and-the-truly-clueless)

As soon as I try to install Flarum i get:
[InvalidArgumentException]
Project directory ./ is not empty.

Deleting and re-creating the html-folder doesn't change anything.

This is by far the most difficult forum to install ? Been trying for 2 days now. It's giving me a headache

0E800

@uing

I would recommend starting from scratch.

Get a ssh login to your host.

Run webeindustries install script:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webeindustry/flarumvpsinstallscript/patch-1/script

Something like this:

ssh ubuntu@yourhost
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webeindustry/flarumvpsinstallscript/patch-1/script
sudo chmod +x script
sudo ./script

This install script will walk you through the installation. Im all for troubleshooting but sometimes it best to just use what works.

Enable Debug:

sudo nano /var/www/yoursite/config.php

<?php return array (
'debug' => true,

Yours will no doubt show: false,

You might also want to review:
http://shinyidol.us/2016/05/30/setup-flarum-on-digital-ocean/

Stay calm, and Flarum on.

uing

0E800 Thanks a lot! The picture is spot on. I ran the script on a clean droplet and everything went smoothly, yea! But how do I access flarum? When I put in the droplets IP address I get a to a landing page from nginx: If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

Edit: I installed another instance. This time when asked for the url, I entered "html". But after the installation is finished and I access my droplet in the browser by entering the IP address I get the following: 403 Forbidden

0E800

uing

What is the output of:

sudo cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yoursitename

What is the location of your site?
/var/www/yoursite?

0E800

uing
Also try clearing your browser cache, ctrl_f5.
The website your seeing is showing /var/www/html but we want it to show /var/www/cyc

uing

0E800

server {
listen 80;

root /var/www/cyc;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;

server_name cyc;

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; }
location /api { try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$query_string; }
location /admin { try_files $uri $uri/ /admin.php?$query_string; }

location /flarum {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

location ~ .php$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7-fpm.cyc.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;



    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

location ~* \.html$ {
    expires -1;
}

location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
    expires 1M;
    add_header Pragma public;
    add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}

gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types application/atom+xml
           application/javascript
           application/json
           application/vnd.ms-fontobject
           application/x-font-ttf
           application/x-web-app-manifest+json
           application/xhtml+xml
           application/xml
           font/opentype
           image/svg+xml
           image/x-icon
           text/css
           text/plain
           text/xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

}

0E800

uing
Looks like everything is good there.
I had the same issue but not sure what I did to make it work.

Try rebooting your host and see if that helps. What is your site address? I can try testing.

uing

0E800 Thanks for helping out. I tried refreshing, but it still shows the "welcome to nginx".

how do I point to the other folder?

0E800

uing
Solution:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/cyc

Change:

server_name cyc;

To:

server_name yourserversipaddress;

Then restart nginx or reboot the host.

When you end up registering a domain name you will need to change it to that name.

I stood up a AMAZON EC2 instance to recreate your steps. Thats how I was able to troubleshoot as Amazon provides only an IP.

You may now proceed to flarum on.

uing

0E800 you're the man! Thanks a lot for guiding me through this!

0E800

uing
Awesome. Now you got a workflow down, the next install will be a breeze.
Is it okay for the admins/mods to mark this as "solved" now?

uing

0E800 yeah, this is solved.

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