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Hi, I want to try out setting my forum elsewhere. I've already export the database and avatars, I am aware that docs covers insallation, however I need an advice to choose host. All of my users are from EU btw. My budget is "as low as possible" and "god I hope it somehow would work". So in other word cost ALAP and performance will still be as good as our beloved FF <3

    aaronlbpeterman I think that "whatever works for you the best". Always do a lot of research before payment, to see if there are better deals somewhere else. Looking at reviews from other customers is important too, if you're sceptical.

      I wouldn't rule out DO either. They were good when I tried. Depends a lot on how much you can tweak further.

      You can rely on community support as well. When I set it up, other members of this forum helped me a lot.

        Hello, what to do if on the forum when entering writes "An error occurred when trying to load the page."?

          cmaul you tell us your forum name and we will fix the issue for you.

          Or if you don't want to wait/want to fix it on your own, you can reset your site settings which also resets enabled extensions, because they are likely to cause these type of issues.

              cmaul

              Next Symfony\Component\Translation\Exception\InvalidResourceException: The file "/app/public/../vendor/composer/../marketplace/flarum-l10n-ext-russian/locale/fof-cookie-consent.yml" does not contain valid YAML: Unexpected characters near "Закрыть"" at line 16 (near "theme_dismiss_title: "Цвет кнопки "Закрыть""). in /app/vendor/symfony/translation/Loader/YamlFileLoader.php:45

              The Russian extension is causing this issue. I've patched it at FreeFlarum and made a PR: marketplace-flarum/flarum-l10n-ext-russian1

              Your forum should be working now

              Edit: The PR was merged now

                  And now it's updated!

                  Hello, does freeflarum support several CNAME records?
                  I currently have this one:
                  Type: CNAME | Host: @ | Value ....freeflarum.com.
                  Want to add this one:
                  Type: CNAME | Host: www | Value: ....freeflarum.com.

                  What I want to achieve is able to use both: naked domain name as well as www prefix. I am using https for domain name.

                  Do you also know how can I create "Site is currently unavailable" page? I dont want my users to see this ugly message from chrome.

                    aaronlbpeterman FreeFlarum currently does not support several CNAME records AFAIK. The closest you'll get now is to make a redirect from one domain to another I guess (we have docs here for naked & root domains and CNAMING, you can check this article about CNAME restrictions and why it can't be a root domain too).

                    Also, by "Site is currently unavailable" page, do you mean 5XX errors that appear when there's a server error or the certificate error when you access the forum from the old (FreeFlarum's) URL?

                        SKevo

                        Namechaep stuff member:
                        By default, all domain names are using http protocol. In order to use https, an SSL certificate is required. All certificates are installed over hosting server and connection with domain should be direct ( A record, CNAME record, NS records). URL redirect is considered as indirect and will not let you use https protocol.
                        URL Redirect on our Basic nameservers works through our URL Forwarding server. There is no SSL certificate on this server and it is not possible to set a custom one on it, unfortunately. Therefore, it will not be possible to create https redirect, only http one.

                        In this scenario I dont think thats its possible to use www along Https ;/

                        Also, by "Site is currently unavailable" page, do you mean 5XX errors that appear when there's a server error or the certificate error when you access the forum from the old (FreeFlarum's) URL?

                        Nah. I mean that lets say I delete CNAME record (theoretically) from my DNS panel. Therefore my users cant access site. And see some "Site is unavailable" error.

                        If there is master of dumb qestions badge available I should probably get one 😃

                            aaronlbpeterman I mean that lets say I delete CNAME record (theoretically) from my DNS panel. Therefore my users cant access site. And see some "Site is unavailable" error.

                            Well yes, the error then appears because the record is indeed gone and the page can't therefore be accessed? I assume that it's a built-in Chrome error, so we can't change that.

                            If the error appears under your domain, then we have no control over it because you own the domain.

                            If the error appears on one of FreeFlarum's domains, then I could look into it sometime later, but since I don't understand what error you mean exactly and on whose end, I can't really tell you what to do. I am not DNS expert either and I never used Namecheap so I don't know what's possible and what's not here, so sorry. But maybe someone else would know? You could try asking Namecheap's support, if you've got no other options.

                                SKevo

                                Ok, you clarified a bit, so thanks anyway.

                                The safest thing for now would be to get rid of www, then set some test flarum and stop making tests on my production environment, users are gonna hate me soon 😃

                                  Has the Brazilian Portuguese translation been removed?

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