Laravel conflicting

Question

I am integrating PHPBB with my Laravel installation and I am having errors because variables are conflicting.

Eg: This page: http://clashdata.tk/search/livesearch?clanname=clans&location=&trophies=0&minmembers=1&maxmembers=50&clanlevel=0

PHPBB is using the Laravel $request var instead of the phpBB one.

The line of code is:

$script_name = $request->escape($symfony_request->getScriptName(), true);

What can I do to fix this? Is there a way I can make Laravel have nothing to do with the /forum directory and totally ignore it with everything?

Lolalolande

Where have you put the forum/ directory? Is it within public/ (i.e. public/forum/)? – Copenhagen

@Copenhagen no. Just /forum. My laravel installation is also in root. I removed the public directory. – Lolalolande

Answer 1

phpBB uses composer, same as laravel.

If you use the same root folder for both installations, composer will try to autoload classes from both installations, hence the errors.

Please install phpBB and laravel in their own separate root folders.

Example:

/html/phpBB/

/html/laravel/

Bobbysoxer

Please give the full path of both phpBB & laravel installations. – Bobbysoxer

Laravel is /home/clashdata/public_html. Phpbb is /home/clashdata/public_html/forum – Lolalolande

Laravel should be: /home/clashdata/public_html/laravel. and phpBB remains the same. If you are on a shared hosting plan, may i suggest you consider renting a server on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud. It will give you more flexibility. – Bobbysoxer

I am on a VPS already. Can you update your post with the commands and steps I need to do to move laravel to /laravel? Thanks. – Lolalolande

I have laravel now in /home/clashdata/public_html/public and forum in /home/clashdata/public_html/forum but it still isn't working. I used this .htaccess trick: tutsnare.com/remove-public-from-url-laravel so that is is still accessible without having to put /public/ in the URL. Still same error though: clashdata.tk/search/… – Lolalolande

Go to each of the folder above, and then in command line, type composer dump-autoload. If you followed the tutorial above, it means you didn't modify your apache's vhost config to have it point directly to /home/clashdata/public_html/public/public. – Bobbysoxer

Do I need to use the apache stuff? Will /forum still be accessible then? composer dump-autoload didn't work. – Lolalolande

Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Bobbysoxer