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SKevo Ah. The meganism seems understandable in order to make sure freeflarum doesnt have thousands of unused forums.

    6 days later

    I was trying to set up a blog in the forum (activated the blog extension), but the blog articles aren't publicly accessible.

    It only shows the error "An error occurred while trying to load this page." if someone tries to visit the blog.

    EDIT: The Blog extension is very buggy.

    Even if normal users aren't allowed to create blog posts, they can choose the tag, but after trying to publish they get a red error "You do not have permission to do that.", but the blog article will be published anyway.

    After I've deactivated and activated the plugin again, this was fixed and normal users couldn't see the blog tag anymore while composing, but now there are blog posts, which can't be deleted (no delete option available).

    Like this post: https://utopify.freeflarum.com/blog/17-spam-blog (you can't see it, because the first problem was, that blog articles aren't publicly accessible) :/

    EDIT 2: It could be possible that I haven't updated the website in my browser (while testing with normal users) and that the UI still thought that normal users are allowed to post with the tag "blog", which led to blog articles, which couldn't be deleted by the admin. (Just a theory)

    I couldn't solve those problems, because even after de-/activating the blog extension, I can't see any published articles, not even if I write new ones as an admin.

    I think I broke something in my forum... but it was a test forum anyway...

    Is it possible to wipe a forum and restart with a fresh installation? Or would it be the right way to abandon the old forum and let the bots delete it after it was unused for a time and just start with a new one?

    EDIT 3: I've started all over again, but the Blog extension is still buggy.

    After trying to visit a blog article over a link, it only shows an error on the website.

    Is any access to the database possible for editing and linking with external plugins? Something like access to phpmyadmin.

      cmaul no, sorry. If you need access to the live MySQL database for whatever reason, then you need to self-host your forum instead and perform the necessary changes there.

      Alternatively, depending on your use case and if possible, I could make small, one-time modifications to the database for you. If you want, please e-mail me at info@freeflarum.com with your forum URL and more details

          5 days later
          4 days later

          I am pretty good at troubleshooting but I am stuck at step #1.

          I cannot make a post. It gives me a 500 error. I can play with anything else and design the page, but I get a 500 error if I attempt to post. I did not do anything custom, I just turned on some plugins, turned off later to see if that would help and nothing. I created the forum yesterday, deleted the original post, and then cannot make my first post. If it was any other error I could troubleshoot, but it says 500 error and according to your status page it is not down. It was doing this before and after I pointed it to a different domain. I foolishly set up the categories and what not before testing if it was functional.

          It is https://alchemist.gay

          (as a sidenote I changed the email to send new users from, and that does not work anymore and I can't remember the original, so I cannot register new users to test)

            Trc4 sorry, the recent downtimes seem to be caused by PHP-FPM crashing. I've now implemented a script to log more information, so I can inspect what happens on next crash.

            FYI I have also updated all extensions at FreeFlarum, since it has been a while

              SKevo Related to this: Is there a way to import users and discussion from a csv file? I would like to migrate a phpBB forum. I am able to get the data in (nearly) any desired format but currently I am lacking a way to import the data.

                  clarkwinkelmann This seems to have not solved my issue still. My forum is up, it is still just throwing 500 Internal Server Errors whenever I attempt to make a post.

                      misnina go into your admin panel, open Flarum PWA settings and click on "Regenerate VAPID keys" & clear your cache, it should fix your issue

                      Wulfheart by the way, maybe have a look at this thread, it might help you if you decide to self-host Flarum - the migration software seems to support phpBB directly, so a CSV conversion might not be needed. Let me know if you need help, or reply to that discussion

                            SKevo I'm sorry for the delay, but this fixed it, thank you!

                              Is it possible if you delete my forum?
                              Sorry for the inconvenience.

                                rh9 it seems that your forum is already offline/archived because it was unused. If you'd like to remove the forum permanently, please message me at info@freeflarum.com with the e-mail address that you used during signup