subdomain redirect to subfolder not working

Kevo

I have flarum installed on a server running ISPConfig. It's installed in a subdirectory of the main domain. (/flarum)
I have setup a subdomain in ISPConfig flarum.mydomain.com and setup a redirect with no flags to /flarum/.

This has worked fine with other things I've installed, kanboard for example, but doesn't seem to work with flarum. If I add the /flarum/ to the end of the url everything seems to work fine.

I suspect that it has to do with the rewrite rules in the .htaccess somehow, but I'm not sure as I don't usually mess with them at all unless it's part of an installation procedure. They usually just work as installed in my experience.

Is there a standard way to get flarum to run in a subfolder, but have the urls not show the full path.

Zeokat

Maybe i'm wrong but your flarum is accesible from domain.com/flarum/ and flarum.domain.com.

Then (if i understand correctly) you add a redirect from flarum.domain.com to domain.com/flarum/.

Why you don't assignt to flarum.domain.com the correct flarum installation path (for example /var/www/html/flarum). And then you only have to redirect domain.com/flarum/ to flarum.domain.com.

Not sure because i can't understand your explanation 100%.

Also open config.php file to check that the url is correct.

Kevo

It works at domain.com/flarum/ and flarum.domain.com/flarum/, but not flarum.domain.com even though I put in the subdomain redirect for flarum.domain.com to /flarum/ in the ISPConfig settings. My other current subdomain redirect works fine so I'm pretty sure I set it up correctly in ISPConfig.

I'm just wondering if there is something in the .htaccess for flarum, or some setting in flarum that needs to be told what path I am wanting to use.

All I get at flarum.domain.com is a web page that says "Cannot GET https://flarum.domain.com"

Zeokat

Well... paste here:

Flarum .htaccess contents.
Flarum config.php contents.
Local path of Flarum install.

With that info we can go more far... without it i feel blind.

clarkwinkelmann

To add to Zeokat answer, you could also use the dev tools of your browser to check where things are blocked (DNS, response, headers, etc...). That way you can also check if the error page comes from your browser or the web server if you're not sure.

Just checking but... did you set up the DNS record correctly ?

luceos

This is not a Flarum issue, but a web configuration issue. I assume you've haven't set up your dns correctly, or you set up the config.php to point to the subfolder instead of the subdomain.

Kevo

I didn't setup config.php. I just ran the installer.

The problem seems to have been that I installed it into a subdirectory and added the subdomain after the fact. I did not realize there was a URL setting in the config.php.

Thanks