Automating installs.

gcgc

Hello!

I have installed Flarum on my VPS, and it works just fine!

Next I'd like to automate the installation process, since this is a repeated process in my scenario: I am trying to make Flarum work for multiple tenants. When each tenant signs up with us, I need to create a forum for him. I will use system settings and info provided by the tenant to create the forum under the hood, without displaying Flarum's install page. After the whole signup is done, a Flarum instance is created. In order to do this, I will need to implement a custom PHP script.

I have done some research on the Flarum's source code, but since I am not familiar with frameworks like Symphony and Illuminate, etc., I am not sure how to proceed. I guess one could start from InstallController/InstallCommand, right?

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks!

luceos

gcgc

php flarum help install

After having installed flarum with composer.

gcgc

luceos, thanks for your helpful reply. It got me further.

However, when I try to use an external config file config.json:
{
"host": "localhost",
"database": "forum_automate",
"username": "user",
"password": "password"
}
and run the command like:
php flarum install -f ./config.json
I got this error:
[PDOException]

SQLSTATE[HY000] [1698] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

It seems that install is trying to connect to MySQL as root rather than the user I provide in config.json?

ChristopherKhawand

Please email me at cwkhawand@gmail.com so I can help.

gcgc

ChristopherKhawand, message sent to your email. Thanks!

luceos

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