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We've updated all extensions across all forums. This resulted in some non-synchronized forums to respond with a 500 error. We apologize for the inconvenience. All forums are syncing now, which will resolve the issue in a few hours

Edit: Remember that it is also possible to synchronize your forum sooner at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings (by clicking on the Fixup the "Yourforum" forum button).

Hello everyone!
My forum address is discussion-forum.kuriousmachine.xyz
It currently has nothing at all but my main website kuriousmachine.xyz has many followers so I expect when I disclose my forum, many will start being an user.
Problem is, it's stated in your terms that a Forum here can host no more than 250 while @"SKevo" emailed me that one of them hosts 5K as well. My question is, as allowed in the terms and the pros being monetization and larger community, Can anybody please provide me a detailed step-by-step (preferably with pictures) of how to self-host a Flarum forum using any hosting provider?

Kind Regards,

[...] it's stated in your terms that a Forum here can host no more than 250 while @SKevo emailed me that one of them hosts 5K as well.

The 250 user limit is not enforced by us. It is the average maximum amount of users for all forums that FreeFlarum can handle. You can go above that, as there is no check to control whether or not a forum has more than 250. When it becomes a problem, we will let you know and ask you to move elsewhere, or reduce your user count.

The limit is probably not relevant at this point because we host a couple of larger forums that operate normally. There is just no time to update the documentation with new information in more detail, at least not for me because I am overwhelmed with my own duties at the moment.

Can anybody please provide me a detailed step-by-step (preferably with pictures) of how to self-host a Flarum forum using any hosting provider?

There is no perfect, general, illustrated, step-by-step guide for every hosting provider, because they all have different UIs, different options and settings that you need to tweak in order to get it working the way you want.
But here's what you should know:

  • If you use shared hosting, you might not have access to composer or SSH, which complicates things a lot. Try to seek hosting that supports SSH access (preferably via a client like PuTTY)
  • There are many guides on this forum and online, which I've already linked in my E-mail. In general, you will need to pick a good hosting and then do some research on how to setup Flarum on that host. Try looking through the Hosting tag

I'd like to point out that the link that meetdilip posted is an official documentation written by the Flarum team. If you picked a host with SSH access, then it indeed is not too difficult, because all details on how to proceed are described there - please, be sure to check it out. And if you're stuck, you can always open a new discussion on this forum with detailed description of your issue, and I am sure that someone will assist you.

      Merged 1 post from Hebrew in a free forum.

      HAIM How do I turn it into Hebrew?

      Did you try installing the language pack ? I think there is one available through the Dashboard.

      • HAIM replied to this.

          HAIM if you are interested to translate flarum into hebrew, we can setup an easy interface for you on weblate.
          This can help you and the community 🙂

              HAIM I then assume that we have no Hebrew extension available yet. Please, request one at https://github.com/gwillem/freeflarum.com/issues, if any is available right now.

              If there is no Hebrew language pack compatible with the latest Flarum at the moment, you can consider Justoverclock's suggestion and maintain translations by yourself. I am sure that this will be beneficial to other Hebrew speaking Flarum communities as well.

                  5 days later

                  Hi all!
                  First of all, I love freeflarum! It's so easy to work with and so much fun to set up, even for someone like me, who doens't have any knowledge about programming and such.

                  So here's one little thing I need help with, if someone can. I've posted it on the Dutch flarum, but I think I can get the right help right here.

                  I've started my own forum just a couple of days ago and I've got a domain at hostnet.nl.
                  Very exited to start, but I ran into a issue with the directing or redirecting?

                  If you use: https://www.equinemarkt.nl you'll go to the right site, also if you use www.equinemarkt.nl and http://www.equinemarkt.nl, but if you typ in equinemarkt.nl you'll can't use the site.

                  And unfortunate for me, that's the link google is using, so new people can't register to my forum.

                  So... help please? 🙈 (I've contacted my hosting but they said I should ask for help here..)

                  Oh I've anybody needs help with the translation from English to Dutch, I'm available !

                  Edit: It's solved!

                    12 days later

                    ChipsyKing the limit is set in PHP-FPM itself, and would require it to be raised system-wide (for all forums). There is a default of 2 MB, which I've raised to 20 MB, and that should be enough for all forums. Let me know if that works

                        meetdilip Of course! It was really simple 😅 At my hosting site I had the choice to framefoward my site or 301 - redirect. I choose the wrong one apparently, I thought framefoward was the one I needed, but that gave the problems that I had. So when I switched to 301- redirect, it worked!

                        So nothing really big, but something I didn't knew but won't forget anymore.