installing flarum with plesk

[Hari]

@phenomlab

Plesk Obsidian Version 18.0.41

domain settings

[phenomlab]

@Hari What’s the output of php -v from CLI ?

[Hari]

@phenomlab

i just sent logins, please teach me what changes i need to make i really want to learn this setup process … i want to do a youtube video on this too

[phenomlab]

@Hari Looks like the environment variable is not set.

What is the output of

locate php and whereis php ?

[Hari]

@phenomlab

should i goto the root and run these commands again?

[phenomlab]

@Hari No. Plesk typically installs PHP in /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin so what is the output of /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php -v ?

Should be

PHP 7.4.28 (cli) (built: Feb 18 2022 07:57:20) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with the ionCube PHP Loader + ionCube24 v11.0.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2022, by ionCube Ltd.
    with Zend OPcache v7.4.28, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Therefore, PHP 8 should be in /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin, so you should also get output from /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin/php -v as below

PHP 8.0.16 (cli) (built: Feb 18 2022 07:57:20) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.0.16, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.0.16, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

This means that because your environment variable is missing, you have to specify the full path to PHP 8, so instead of just php, you need /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin/php

Welcome to Plesk

[Hari]

@phenomlab

[phenomlab]

@Hari sorry - that should be /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin/php. Previous post corrected.

[Hari]

@phenomlab i installed Plesk directly from DO app area… it’s free up to 2-3 domains.

after running opt command the screen got stuck

[phenomlab]

@Hari That’s expected because you are now running PHP as a daemon Kill it by pressing CTRL + C (sometimes CTRL + Z or CTRL + X), then issue the correct command of /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin/php -v which should spit out the version used in CLI.

[Hari]

@phenomlab

[phenomlab]

@Hari There you go…!

[Hari]

@phenomlab ok, now when i went in the domain folder and try i am getting an error

[phenomlab]

@Hari so if you wanted to run a particular PHP file, or command, you’d have to use /opt/plesk/php/8.0/bin/php flarum cache:clear for example.

Now you know why I hate Plesk

[phenomlab]

@Hari said in installing flarum with plesk:

@phenomlab ok, now when i went in the domain folder and try i am getting an error

Yes, you have to understand that this expected. You cannot just run php and expect it to work like that in Plesk, because it won’t.

[Hari]

@phenomlab ohoo, in that case, i can not run flarum commands when i am in the domain folder

do i need to create any bash or some kind of profile for that?

or shall i just try to install by giving exact path of my domain folder while installing flarum from root

[phenomlab]

@phenomlab Seeing as this is a testing box, you could try apt install php8.0-cli and see where that takes you, but I’m guessing it’s not the silver bullet you are looking for.

[phenomlab]

@Hari

in that case, i can not run flarum commands when i am in the domain folder

Yes, you can, but you have to specify the full path to PHP each time.

[phenomlab]

@Hari said in installing flarum with plesk:

flarum from root

Don’t ever do that. Bad for security. You might as well set 777 on all files and folders

[Hari]

@phenomlab plesk plesk … lalala

@phenomlab said in installing flarum with plesk:

@phenomlab Seeing as this is a testing box, you could try apt install php8.0-cli and see where that takes you, but I’m guessing it’s not the silver bullet you are looking for.