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ramkumaritrvs

TB54 I mean by that have the less possible things to do on the FTP phase, and be able to access as soon as possible to an interface from which everything can be installed/downloaded/updated (a little like for a WordPress frontend)? Because I think a lot of people like me, aka kinda-newbies (no knowledge beyond html/css) are totally stuck and discouraged by the line codes and all which is asked in the installation.

Exactly, most of the people looking for it. Nowadays people use wordpress because of its ease of use like installation and updates from the interface. Hopefully, flarum should add more priority to this, and soon we can see it in live. Until I keep flarum in my waiting list only.

TazElite

Hello, i am taz and i was wondering how i can do this?

https://ibb.co/qrkNScC

clarkwinkelmann

TazElite welcome, what can we help you with? If you are running a forum with FreeFlarum, they have a pretty good FAQ on their website you can start with.

If you have questions or issues about self-hosted Flarum, please start a new support discussion.

EDIT: I didn't notice your post linked an image, it doesn't seem like that was a valid link to embed, so I replaced it with just a link. Are you trying to replicate the theme visible in the screenshot?

TB54

Hello,

I don't know if it's the place to get help, but I have difficulties to enter my own domain name on my freeflarum forum.

I bought a domain name (cinestudia.fr), and in the "DNS zone" tab of my web host, I created this entry (forum.cinestudia.fr) link to my current freeflarum forum (cinstudtest.freeflarum.com), more than 24h ago:

(translation : MODIFY AN ENTRY IN THE DNS ZONE / Subdomain / TTL / Target / The CNAME currently generated is the following)

Then I entered my domain url in freeflarum settings, but each time i try to save it:

It refreshes the page and show me the old url:

And the new url gives a 404 error. I read the advanced documentation but apart from the proxy thing (I can't find with what it could match on my web host), I don't find a solution.

Any idea of what I'm doing wrong?

SKevo

TB54 remove https:// and the slash after from the URL in your settings, then save it

TB54

It works, thanks!

ImNotRen

Hey, how could I boot my forum page back up? I tried on FreeFlarum.com but it still doesn't let me connect. I appreciate it

SKevo

ImNotRen this has something to do with http://bloom.us/, since it's unreachable too and your domain has no longer the CNAME record required.

I've reset your forum host to the default one, so you should be able to access it now at https://sugunion.flarum.cloud (if you are still being redirected to the old one, try it in Incognito/Private browsing/with browser cache cleared)

ImNotRen

SKevo Even with the default domain it shows up as unreachable

TB54

It's really a tiny detail and nothing important, but there is a little bug in firefox's bookmark with freeflarum: the bookmark's favicon can become the one of freeflarum (below), and not the one of your forum (above).

Favicon in firefox are often buggy and difficult to refresh (the favicon was fine the first day), but it means firefox still can find it's way to the generic icon. If i go to www.myforum.fr/favicon.ico, I indeed end up on freeflarum favicon (and not on the one I choose for the forum).

SKevo

TB54 the way FreeFlarum shows its default icon is that all forums have a favicon.ico in their web root. When you upload a custom icon, Flarum won't overwrite this file, but instead it will use the <link rel="shortcut icon" [...]> HTML head element to show the custom uploaded one. This has higher priority over favicon.ico, and works fine in most browsers.

I believe the way Firefox works is that it does not attempt to load the favicon from <link>, but the one present in the page's root. Unfortunately, there is not a reliable way for FreeFlarum to check if a forum had uploaded a custom favicon or not to possibly overwrite the root (FreeFlarum default) one.

I did a bit of search: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1230644
Flarum does not use the type="image/x-icon". Maybe that's required by Firefox? However, someone must test that
It could also be something else, e. g.: your browser's cache, settings, etc.

SKevo

TB54 TeamF I have removed the default favicon for all forums. This will likely not fix the issue, but you can give it a try. I assume that it will still occur, but now just with a blank image instead of FF's default.

That's pretty much all that we can do, as this is possibly an issue with these browsers, which is not something that we can fix easily.

Note: syncing all forums right now

TB54

SKevo I believe the way Firefox works is that it does not attempt to load the favicon from <link>, but the one present in the page's root.

Note that yesterday (when I created the bookmark), firefox displayed the right favicon in the bookmarks... It changed today, maybe when i restarted firefox (but not sure, I don't remember well). No idea what it means.

orschiro

Is this a known problem or shall I report as a new bug?

Issue when replying:

SKevo

orschiro this is either a cache problem or an issue with some extension. Try clearing your cache first, and if that doesn't help, then there will be an error either in your browser's console or server-side logs.

If you want, I can also create a temporary test account and look at the issue for you. But I am almost entirely sure that it has something to do with some extension

orschiro

SKevo thanks! I am able to reproduce the issue by using two separate accounts (one Admin, one normal account).

If you first post with one, then sign out and sign in with the other to post, the problem occurs.

So must be a cache issue I guess.

But is this maybe something that Flarum could fix?

Clearing cache every time I perform an account change is not so convenient.

clarkwinkelmann

orschiro ok so it looks like a 500 error. There should be something logged in the FreeFlarum logs page. You might also be able to see more details in the browser dev tools under network tab, though if debug mode is disabled, it probably won't say much. Since I don't think you can enable debug mode on FreeFlarum, the best place to check next is the page SKevo linked above:

SKevo or server-side logs.

SKevo

orschiro if it happens when switching account, then I assume that it is some kind of session or cookie issue. I don't know what causes this, but this is something that Flarum could fix, yes

orschiro

SKevo how do we proceed? Shall we set up a few more test accounts or directly open a bug report? If so, where is the best place?

orschiro

SKevo was able to consistently reproduce it.

https://community.sheetgo.com/d/99-account-switch-test

Which is the best repo to report as a bug?

https://github.com/orgs/flarum/repositories

orschiro

clarkwinkelmann SKevo sorry overlooked the comment about the logs.

This is the output whenever I try to post from my Admin account after I performed an account switch and reloaded the page:

clarkwinkelmann

Can you check the browser console (javascript and network) to check if it's a CSRF token related issue? (400 status code with csrf_token_mismatch in response body) Or if there's an actual javascript or 500 error happening?

CSRF issues (expiration) can happen when you keep your browser open for a very long time or reconnect with a different account in a different tab. If there's still an issue after a page refresh it's likely not this and there should be a javascript or PHP error message to work from.

SKevo

orschiro SKevo was able to consistently reproduce it.

When? I haven't tested it, I worked with information that you gave me, which isn't enough for Flarum to fix the issue. Before you proceed, we need to have an output of your console or logs, as me and clarkwinkelmann told you

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