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Installing Flarum on a Mac — no Nginx

In this tutorial, we’ll install a flarum, a next-generation online discussion forum app on a Mac.

2018-01-28

Installing Flarum on a Mac — no Nginx

In this tutorial, we’ll install a flarum, a next-generation online discussion forum app on a Mac.

Flarum is really beautiful!

These commands should be run in your Terminal.

Create an empty folder

> mkdir flarum
> cd flarum

Create the project

> composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta

Add the Flagrow Extension

According to the installation guide, we’d have to fiddle with Nginx and Lighttpd, but I didn’t want to do that, so we’d use an extension instead.

> composer require flagrow/serve

Serve the app

> php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 vendor/flagrow/serve/src/server.php

Be sure to use the port you want. In my case, it’s 8000.

Hooking up MySQL

When you load http://localhost:8000 in your browser, you’d be shown a page that asks you to enter config information like your MySQL database name and login credentials.

Be sure you have a working MySQL installation, and have created the MySQL Database.

Enter the information requested for and click on install. This will take a minute.

Voila!

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