Tips for Flarum install?

techism

Hi Sean. I think I got most of this done, the place I'm hung up is the final step: creating the site. I've created a subdomain, the application and all that - but I don't see how to route the site to the public folder of the application. Ideas?
Thanks,
-Techism

sean

techism the application in this case is supposed to be a symlink app pointing to the public folder, eg almost exactly like the Laravel example in the symlink doc: https://docs.opalstack.com/topic-guides/symlinks/#example-serving-a-laravel-project-with-a-symlink-app

If you've followed the instructions in my previous reply and have created the symlink app pointing to your public folder, then all you should need to do is route the symlink app to / when you create the site.

techism

Oh right! I'll double check that. Thanks!

anjanesh

For composer, I do it using php directly where composer.phar is located :
php composer.phar require package/name

sean

anjanesh For composer, I do it using php directly where composer.phar is located :
php composer.phar require package/name

Did you need to run this step while installing Flarum? It should not be necessary.

anjanesh

sean Oh sorry - I was just replying the OP of why composer was not found
-bash: composer: command not found

sean

anjanesh in this case the OP wasn't able to run composer because they had not yet installed composer.

If you follow the instructions in our documentation to install and run composer then the syntax you're using isn't necessary because composer will be on your executable path and you can just run it.

scp

I just got Flarum installed very simply thanks to this thread, thank you.

I can't get the emails to work though. The default is to use mail and the "test email" button shows an error ("Oops! Something went wrong. Please reload the page and try again.").

Should I be using the SMTP option, and should I be setting up a proper "from" address with all the SPF, DKIM etc?

Thanks,
Stephen.

sean

scp SMTP should not be required but you absolutely must be using a valid sender address.

scp

sean I've updated the CloudFlare DNS records to add MX records for the sub-domain I am using for the forum. I've set up an email address in OpalStack (forwarded to an existing mailbox for now). I've tested I can send an email to the forum address from an external system.

The error in the Flarum logs is:

 flarum.ERROR: Swift_TransportException: Expected response code 220 but got an empty response in /home/scp/mcw-forum/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/AbstractSmtpTransport.php:447

Googling it turns up a lot of people with the same issue but I think the solution lies with the hosting provider mostly so the responses are generally not useful. Do you have any thoughts? Is there a PHP function I need to enable?

scp

Just another note in case anyone else installs Flarum...

I'm using CloudFlare for my DNS so it took a little while before OpalStack's systems managed to obtain an SSL certificate for my forum's domain name. This meant that I set the forum up using HTTP and then later it all started getting redirected to HTTPS. At this point lots of things stopped working and I could see in the browser dev tools that it was because of "mixed content" errors.

Anyway, to cut it short, there's a file config.php in the root of the Flarum install where you need to change the url entry to be "https" instead of "http", then it's all fine again.

sean

scp please email the details (mailbox, email address, and date and time (with time zone) of the error) so that we may investigate.