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  • i have created a DB and imported DB but i could not find any user assigned to it in PHPmyadmin am i missing anything?

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    #3

    @phenomlab

    Failed to save user : SQL drop user if exists 'asku@ask.domain.com'@'localhost' failed : String 'asku@ask.domain.com' is too long for user name (should be no longer than 32)
    

    looks like my domain name is too big, never thought this will be an a issue 😄 how to handle this?

  • @phenomlab

    Failed to save user : SQL drop user if exists 'asku@ask.domain.com'@'localhost' failed : String 'asku@ask.domain.com' is too long for user name (should be no longer than 32)
    

    looks like my domain name is too big, never thought this will be an a issue 😄 how to handle this?

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    #4

    @Hari Looks like you are attempting to rename the existing user ? I wouldn’t do that.

    Login to MySQL as root, and run

    show create table mysql.user

    What’s the output of that command ?

  • @Hari Looks like you are attempting to rename the existing user ? I wouldn’t do that.

    Login to MySQL as root, and run

    show create table mysql.user

    What’s the output of that command ?

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    #5

    @phenomlab

    localhost/		https://ip/phpmyadmin/index.php?route=/server/sql
    Your SQL query has been executed successfully.
    
    show create table mysql.user;
    
    
    
    user	CREATE TABLE `user` (
      `Host` char(255) CHARACTER...
    

    as root i could not able to grant permission to a user

    cf1f3c2b-cf98-4755-bb5e-9f47d4211f93-image.png

  • @phenomlab

    localhost/		https://ip/phpmyadmin/index.php?route=/server/sql
    Your SQL query has been executed successfully.
    
    show create table mysql.user;
    
    
    
    user	CREATE TABLE `user` (
      `Host` char(255) CHARACTER...
    

    as root i could not able to grant permission to a user

    cf1f3c2b-cf98-4755-bb5e-9f47d4211f93-image.png

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    #6

    @Hari This doesn’t look right to me. Can you PM the server details plus a username and password I can use to access and take a look ?

  • @Hari This doesn’t look right to me. Can you PM the server details plus a username and password I can use to access and take a look ?

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    #7

    @phenomlab sure, i have deleted that user and created a new DB and user “askDO” shared logins via PM

    lol, meanwhile i am trying to install composer 😄

    root@ask public_html]# composer require blomastra/flarum-redis:*
    sh: 1: composer: not found
    [root@ask public_html]# mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
    mv: cannot stat 'composer.phar': No such file or directory
    [root@ask public_html]# php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
    Could not open input file: composer-setup.php
    [root@ask public_html]# php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
    Could not open input file: composer-setup.php
    [root@ask public_html]#
    
  • @phenomlab sure, i have deleted that user and created a new DB and user “askDO” shared logins via PM

    lol, meanwhile i am trying to install composer 😄

    root@ask public_html]# composer require blomastra/flarum-redis:*
    sh: 1: composer: not found
    [root@ask public_html]# mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
    mv: cannot stat 'composer.phar': No such file or directory
    [root@ask public_html]# php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
    Could not open input file: composer-setup.php
    [root@ask public_html]# php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer
    Could not open input file: composer-setup.php
    [root@ask public_html]#
    
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    #8

    @Hari said in how can i create a mysql user in virtualmin:

    sure, i have deleted that user and created a new DB and user “askDO” shared logins via PM

    Everything looks to be in order. The user askDO seems to have full access to that database. Is this now working ?

  • @Hari said in how can i create a mysql user in virtualmin:

    sure, i have deleted that user and created a new DB and user “askDO” shared logins via PM

    Everything looks to be in order. The user askDO seems to have full access to that database. Is this now working ?

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    @phenomlab i have changed the domain in flarum config file to IP but it is not working, trying to install composer now

  • @phenomlab i have changed the domain in flarum config file to IP but it is not working, trying to install composer now

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    @Hari checking

  • @phenomlab i have changed the domain in flarum config file to IP but it is not working, trying to install composer now

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    #11

    @Hari It’s looking for a Redis install. Is this active ?

    [2022-02-16 11:57:15] flarum.ERROR: Predis\Connection\ConnectionException: Connection refused [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379]

  • @Hari It’s looking for a Redis install. Is this active ?

    [2022-02-16 11:57:15] flarum.ERROR: Predis\Connection\ConnectionException: Connection refused [tcp://127.0.0.1:6379]

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    #12

    @phenomlab yes, after installing composer i am supposed to install redis

  • @phenomlab i have changed the domain in flarum config file to IP but it is not working, trying to install composer now

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    #13

    @Hari Did you install composer as per this guide ?

    https://getcomposer.org/download/

    Essentially, it’s this

    php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
    php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '906a84df04cea2aa72f40b5f787e49f22d4c2f19492ac310e8cba5b96ac8b64115ac402c8cd292b8a03482574915d1a8') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
    php composer-setup.php
    php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
    
  • @Hari Did you install composer as per this guide ?

    https://getcomposer.org/download/

    Essentially, it’s this

    php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
    php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === '906a84df04cea2aa72f40b5f787e49f22d4c2f19492ac310e8cba5b96ac8b64115ac402c8cd292b8a03482574915d1a8') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
    php composer-setup.php
    php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
    
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    @phenomlab yes,

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  • wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #15

    @Hari It’s not installed

    6ac11845-ecd3-47bc-8584-b4583fa6c582-image.png

    EDIT: Seems it is installed, but not correctly. You should be able to run this simply as composer. However, php composer.phar will work, but it’s clumsy to type…

  • @Hari It’s not installed

    6ac11845-ecd3-47bc-8584-b4583fa6c582-image.png

    EDIT: Seems it is installed, but not correctly. You should be able to run this simply as composer. However, php composer.phar will work, but it’s clumsy to type…

    wrote on last edited by Hari
    #16

    @phenomlab

    i followed these two guides

    php composer.phar

    https://getcomposer.org/download/
    https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md

    i think i installed it in multiple places root and public_html

    how can i fix it?

  • @phenomlab

    i followed these two guides

    php composer.phar

    https://getcomposer.org/download/
    https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md

    i think i installed it in multiple places root and public_html

    how can i fix it?

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    @Hari Ok. Let me have a look at this for you.

  • wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #18

    @Hari done. You should now be able to run composer directly as any user (preferably not root) inside the public_html directory.

    Essentially, it needs to be installed as php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer

  • @Hari done. You should now be able to run composer directly as any user (preferably not root) inside the public_html directory.

    Essentially, it needs to be installed as php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/bin --filename=composer

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    #19

    @phenomlab sir, do i need to move any files now? or did you fix it ?

  • @phenomlab sir, do i need to move any files now? or did you fix it ?

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    #20

    @Hari Fixed. No need to move anything. It should just “work” 🙂

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    @Hari you can go ahead and use sudo apt install redis-server redis-tools to get Redis up and running now. After that, (hopefully) Flarum should boot.


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