installing flarum with plesk

[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.

[phenomlab]

@Hari that should in fact work !

[Hari]

@phenomlab that is the problem, its better to use pocket hold and install and update extensions using the Plesk panel.

but the only problem is installing Redis … is there any way to create user for domain in Plesk and set his CLI to php8 and composer version to 2

as mentioned in docs Plesk is not using php8 cli this is weird

[Hari]

@phenomlab will it work everytime i login or its only valid for this session?

[phenomlab]

@Hari the full path ? Yes.

[phenomlab]

@Hari yes. Take my advice and avoid Plesk. It’s sh**. Can’t be much plainer than that.

[Hari]

@phenomlab the php 8 CLI

[phenomlab]

@Hari that will work every time but you still need the full path to the php binary

[Hari]

@phenomlab sure, i want to run this little software with light tools - are there any other alternatives?

someone is doing like this https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30211-gtmetrix-grade-and-stats-on-flarum/2 is it a good practice?

i don’t think this bare bones kind of process is good for newbies