Flarum is a free and open-source forum software which is based on PHP. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Flarum on Fedora Server latest version.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first thing we need to do is to install the web server. Fedora server comes with Apache installed, to install Nginx use the following command:
sudo dnf install nginx
Once the installation is completed, start the service and enable it to start automatically at boot time.
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
The next step is to install PHP on our server. We can do this by running the following command:
sudo dnf install php php-cli php-mysqlnd php-json php-pdo php-gd php-mbstring php-fpm
Once the installation is completed, restart the PHP-FPM service.
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
Now, we need to install MySQL server to manage our database. Use the following command to install MySQL.
sudo dnf install mysql-server
Once the installation is completed, start the service and enable it to start automatically at boot time.
sudo systemctl start mysqld
sudo systemctl enable mysqld
Configure MySQL by running the following command:
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. It is used to manage Flarum dependencies. To install Composer, use the following command.
sudo dnf install composer
At this point, We have installed all the prerequisites for Flarum. Now, it's time to install Flarum.
To download and install Flarum, we use the Composer dependency manager.
cd /var/www/html
sudo composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta
Create a Virtual Host for Flarum. We create a new file with the name flarum.conf in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory.
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/flarum.conf
Add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name your_domain.com;
root /var/www/html/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save and exit the file.
Restart Nginx to load the new virtual host.
sudo systemctl restart nginx
Next, we need to configure Flarum database by creating a new MySQL database for Flarum.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for Flarum:
CREATE DATABASE flarum;
Create a new user:
CREATE USER 'flarumuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Grant all privileges to the user to the Flarum database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON flarum.* TO 'flarumuser'@'localhost';
Flush the privileges and exit MySQL:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Go to Flarum installation directory:
cd /var/www/html
Run the installer:
sudo php flarum install
Follow the prompts to provide the database details, username, and password for Flarum user and the administrator account.
Once the installation is done, open your browser and go to your Flarum URL:
http://your_domain.com
That’s it! You have successfully installed Flarum on your Fedora server. You can now start using your own forum.
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