How to install Flarum on cPanel

qalexandru

Hello, is a way to install Flarum on cPanel like phpBB, IPB, vBulletin or something like that?
I'll be very happy if is a way! ?

Arkinn

qalexandru

Pockethold will do what you are looking for, either that or composer the files to your local machine, and upload them via FTP.

Not the best (or official for that matter) ways of doing it, but it works ?

Prosperous

Unfortunately not at the moment. The only way to install Flarum at the moment is via Composer. There will definitely be a way of installing as you would any other forum software on cPanel once the stable version is released by the developers. ?

If you wanted to get Flarum set up now though I'm sure it is something that you could do. There are quite a few walkthroughs available on the forum and also some knowledgeable members that can assist you during the process.

Ralkage

Ensure you have SSH access, I had jailed access when I had shared hosting but I ran into being limited to using PHP 5.4 as a default. Pockethold is beautiful though that I can tell you honestly.

qalexandru

Damn, I installed it yesterday after this post. ?
I installed composer on my PC and just i opened cmd, I navigated to desktop and i used

mkdir flarum

and i run this code after

composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta

and after composer download all files I make a zip archive with all files and I uploaded it to my FTP.
Very easy ?

jvloo

qalexandru
That's how I installed Flarum on cPanel too 😆 However, I don't make a zip archive, uploading and extracting the files directly onto my server.

Instead, I have installed Flarum in my localhost, uploading it onto Github and then, I deploy the repository onto my server using the Git version control tool available on CPanel.. That's to ease my future version update or installing/uninstalling new extensions (I use composer to install extensions on my localhost copy of Flarum and push commit to Github... then use the Git version control tool to update the code).

If you have a doubt on why I don't use the Bazaar extension, I have actually faced some problem installing it ☹️ It just showing errors on the extension page and loading nothing.. Currently no extra time to troubleshoot the problem, so I just stick to the primitive one (use composer instead)..

Ralkage

@qalexandru If you want to go the extra mile, try Git BASH, glad you solved your issue though!

qalexandru

Ralkage i think this way is easier.
But every time when I want to install a extension is should reinstall the forum ? Because I don't know how I can copy only the extension.
http://i.imgur.com/LUNQdDF.png

Ralkage

qalexandru You are doing it the right way, it is just suggesting additional repos but you can ignore that as far as I know. It shouldn't, however, reinstall Flarum at all unless you're trying to make a clean install again. I do know that some extensions require additional vendor packages such as Upload by Flagrow.

qalexandru

Yep, I found another method. Just download some extension then upload the files into my FTP account and it's work ?
Anyway, thanks for help ?