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Merged 1 post from Anyway to improve the searching CJK in native flarum.

Hello, sorry i just have added a custom domain to my freeflarum forum, but it shows a 403 error. The hosting and the domain provider (bluehost) told me that i should either connect it via not CNAME but A or talk to freeflarum support team so im here
the subdomain that i wish to have my forum:
https://forum.traf-fix.top/

    orschiro should be fixed for all forums now, the SMTP IP is local again

    traffix123 fixed, your forum should now be accessible at your domain

    lichengkun135 we could provide the necessary database modifications to allow for search by CJK characters and install some search extensions/drivers. I'll put it on my to-do list and look at what can be done from our side

            I just created a forum and there are 2 users that have already joined my forum, and the join date is prior to me creating the forum. What's going on here?

              traffix123 it works fine for me... Please, try accessing your site either in incognito, with cleared browser cache or another browser - your browser might've cached the old domain settings that didn't work

              UntrustableRus they're bot accounts that have registered an account at our main forum, which we copy the database from when creating a new forum. It is a known issue which (I think) was fixed on the old server, but it looks like the fix didn't carry over to the new one. I'll patch it later today. Meanwhile, as for now, it is completely safe to just destroy them.

              Edit: these accounts are not the ones that were removed, they're new and they were created after the fix. I guess it would make sense to either make our skeleton forum private or completely restrict public access, so things like this don't happen. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!

                  There are an option to export data, is it possible to import data?

                    maruco we've added it as an option for donors that have donated above 20 € as compensation for additional server fees. But this option will be removed in the future, as it assumes that you already have an existing Flarum forum, which doesn't work well with our ideology.

                        SKevo wow thank you, so currently we will be able to import other Flarum database to FreeFlarum?

                            a bit off-topic, If we have multiple flarums installed on the server how do you perform a bulk update of extensions and migration commands at once? or do we need to manually update each and every flarum?

                            https://www.freeflarum.com/ Not redirecting to https://freeflarum.com/

                              Hari a bit off-topic, If we have multiple flarums installed on the server how do you perform a bulk update of extensions and migration commands at once? or do we need to manually update each and every flarum?

                              I'm sorry, but I am not really sure what do you mean. We do all upgrades for our users (including Flarum upgrades, extension maintenance and database migration), so no action is required from your side.

                              That is a known issue, but thank you for reporting it anyways. The redirection code doesn't work on the new server for some reason. I haven't found out why is that happening, yet

                                  SKevo i mean how do you perform updates for all flarums? do you run a single command targeting all installations or do you manually go to each and every falrum directory to run flarum updated commands?

                                      Hari we have one master forum (that we conveniently call "skeleton"). The static files of that forum are hard-linked (re-used, in a nutshell) across all other forums (things such as extensions' source code, Flarum core, etc...).

                                      When an upgrade is available, we only upgrade the master forum, and then we rsync all other forums. This makes sure that we do not need to upgrade every forum individually, and it saves a lot of disk space too. The side effect is that when there are a lot of code changes, it can sometimes bring unsynchronized forums down (that's why like 70 % of problems with FreeFlarum forums can be resolved by synchronizing the out-of-sync forums).

                                      Upgrades themselves are handled by scripts that automatically target all forums. In fact, we try to automate as much as possible to save time. Doing all this work mostly by hand would surely make my hair silver 50 years earlier or so 🙂

                                          SKevo I'm thinking of providing freeflarum like service using Plesk on India based droplet. i have no plans to make revenue out of it. (i have a good day job 😃) maybe i may start with a 4gb ram and 2cpu not sure how many flarums it would support. i have seen few flarum authors forking multi site repos i think soon after 6months flarum will support multisite just like wordpress maybe that will take away all the heavy migration work.

                                            Receiving a 502 error on our forum community.sheetgo.com . Anyone else?

                                              orschiro should be good now, it seems to have resolved itself. Perhaps a PHP-FPM timeout...