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gabrielpipolo

SKevo Was a quick one, everything seems to be running fine again! 😁 thanks for the work, freeflarum is becoming so powerful!! 😄

rg90

Hi, today i discovered Flarum Free, which looks amazing.
1. But I have a few questions, is Flarum Free a long-term project? I ask because I would like to start a sports forum of the city football club and I would not like Flarum Free to disappear from nowhere and I lose the whole discussion.

2. Another question, do I have any restrictions regarding uploaded data, images, etc.? It's hosted by you, so I'm wondering if there are any limits. This Free Flarum forum is amazing, maybe it wouldn't be bad to move it to the paid version.

3. Another thing, I would like to run Flarum Free on my domain, but I'm not able to set it up. I will be happy for your help.

The default values for my hosting for CNAME are as follows:
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If my Free Flarum forum name is https://rg90.flarum.cloud/ how do I have to edit the entry on my hosting to make everything work ? And how do I edit it, then what do I have to enter in this field? ![
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Thank you so much for your help, now I have one more question to install the full version of Flarum.

***** My hosting has the option to install using SSH, but I am not an experienced user and I am not able to install it via the command line.
I therefore ask, is it possible to install on a PC to some folder and then just copy it to FTP? Thank you

SKevo

rg90 is Flarum Free a long-term project?

Yes, I suppose. Personally, I don't plan to quit anytime soon

rg90 I would not like Flarum Free to disappear from nowhere and I lose the whole discussion.

It is definitely not going to disappear without a warning. If anything happens (I hope not), it will be announced there. Moreover, you are free to download your database at anytime from your FreeFlarum settings page, so your data won't disappear either.

rg90 do I have any restrictions regarding uploaded data, images, etc.?

Yes, we don't allow direct file upload to our server, so at the moment you must use an external service, such as Imgur. This might change in the future.

rg90 Another thing, I would like to run Flarum Free on my domain, but I'm not able to set it up.

I don't know what registar is that, but I think that your FreeFlarum URL (without https://, eg.: rg90.freeflarum.com.) is supposed to go in the "Content" field. At FreeFlarum, you then type in the CNAMEd URL (without https://, eg.: yoursubdomain.rg90.cz).

rg90 is it possible to install on a PC to some folder and then just copy it to FTP?

Outside FreeFlarum, technically yes (we don't provide FTP access), but it's not recommended AFAIK. The installation process is not that hard even for inexperienced user IMO, because everything is documented here: https://docs.flarum.org/install.html

meetdilip

rg90 I therefore ask, is it possible to install on a PC to some folder and then just copy it to FTP? Thank you

A lot of people do that. But if you can use Composer using SSH, it is much simpler than the FTP solution. This is just my opinion, I could be wrong.

meetdilip

FF is around for ₂+ years now. As for data, take regular backups
FF only keeps text data. And allows exporting database of your forum. So you can leave with all your data anytime you want, free of cost.

FF has made it clear before that there is no scope for a paid plan in immediate future.

You can point your domain to abc.flarum.cloud

Almost everything regarding FF is done in 2-4 clicks, super easy. You will need SSH only if you want to self host Flarum.

rg90

meetdilip

Thank you, I would like to do it like this, but I have no experience with it. As I say my hosting supports it, but they write that

The service is intended only for advanced users and experts in the Linux OS. The provider is not responsible for any problems or damage caused by improper handling and all repairs by the provider's technician will be charged according to the valid price list.

So I'm a little afraid of doing something wrong, I believe I would learn it and I even believe it won't be difficult, but as I write it, I have no experience with it.

meetdilip

Which host ? If you need help with installing your own instance of Flarum on a web hosting provider, feel free to start a topic under Support.

There are official docs on how to install Flarum on your own web hosting package

https://docs.flarum.org/composer.html

If you find it hard, offer it as a paid assignement so that someone will be able to do it for you. Good luck 🙂

SKevo

I have updated all extensions to newest versions. I am syncing all forums right now. This should also resolve the cache issue with PWA (when where you would enable the PWA extension, your forum would stop working).

In addition to that, I have added a new section to the settings where you can synchronize your forum yourself by clicking on 1 button.

As you can see, this will clear the cache, migrate your forum database and synchronize your forum for you. It can also be used when we are syncing all forums due to an extension/Flarum update, and you would like to have the new features faster, or you would just like your forum to work. Very useful IMO

luceos

SKevo love it!

lucbach

Hey Guys!

Not sure if it's the right place to post my two questions here, but I'll try 😉.

First of all: amazing forum engine, I'm delighted. Within few days I was able to create a forum itself, customize and configure it. A-ma-zing. Posted a donation already and planning to send more in upcoming months. Thanks you're here!

OK, now my two questions:

I've launched my forum and can see that bold and italic are not working when writing the post. and _ __ _ are added when I press B and I icons, but there is not bold and italic in the post. When I type it by hand ( or _ _) it's working...
when I remove topics from each tag-based category, the number of posts stays the same, for example in the tag category there are no topics and posts and it still says "4 posts"... (and 0 discussions which is correct).

Can someone help me?

askvortsov

lucbach I've launched my forum and can see that bold and italic are not working when writing the post. and _ __ _ are added when I press B and I icons, but there is not bold and italic in the post. When I type it by hand ( or _ _) it's working...

This is a bug with the beta 16 release. You can make some parts of it better by disabling mdarea in the markdown extension settings

lucbach when I remove topics from each tag-based category, the number of posts stays the same, for example in the tag category there are no topics and posts and it still says "4 posts"... (and 0 discussions which is correct).

Is this with the categories extension enabled or disabled?

lucbach

Wow, thanks for the flash response, @askvortsov !

(...) by disabling mdarea in the markdown extension settings

Amazing, thanks, now it's working 🙂!

Is this with the categories extension enabled or disabled?

I'm not using traditional categories, all I have launched in extensions regarding that is Tags extension. Does it answer your question?

askvortsov

lucbach I'm not using traditional categories, all I have launched in extensions regarding that is Tags extension. Does it answer your question?

Hmm, could you share a screenshot of where you're seeing incorrect values?

lucbach

Sure thing, here it is:

and it's just one post without any answers inside, so it should say 1 discussions | 1 posts ^

askvortsov

lucbach Yep, that's the categories extension. Looks like it's getting out of sync, feel free to open a report over at https://discuss.flarum.org/d/23184-flarum-categories.

lucbach

Uh, sorry, didn't know the perfect name of it. Sure, I'll write there, thanks for your amazing support!

wolfshards

Can i have these debugs tools? I can't figure out whats extensions is trying making error. Is making error when i post something inside my own. I made a secondary forum for a specific community at deltalon.flarum.cloud and i did the similar config to my main site.

That can be handy.

askvortsov

wolfshards Can i have these debugs tools?

Which ones?

wolfshards

Debug about errors. When error is spotted there something that can relay to extension or core items. But idk whats wrong with my forum.

askvortsov

wolfshards What errors are you seeing?

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