Flarum is the simple, fast and free open source forum platform for online communities. This image runs Flarum 1.8 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a bundled MariaDB, the forum on port 80, a per VM admin password on first boot with no default login, and data on a dedicated disk. By cloudimg.
## Flarum on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Flarum is a simple, fast and free open source forum platform for building online communities. It pairs a modern single page interface with a lightweight PHP backend, so your members can start discussions, reply, mention each other, react with likes, organise topics into tags, and moderate with a full permission system, all from one clean and responsive interface. Built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, with Flarum 1.8 served by nginx and PHP 8.3 FPM and a bundled local MariaDB server so the appliance is complete on its own.
The Flarum database is installed and ready, with a welcome discussion already in place, and a unique administrator password is generated on the first boot of every VM. Flarum ships no default login, and the cloudimg image goes further: the admin account is created with a per VM secret and no known or blank credential authenticates. Browse to the forum on port 80 with the password from /root/flarum-credentials.txt, then use the Administration panel to set your forum appearance, manage users and permissions, and install extensions.
The bundled MariaDB listens only on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1:3306) and is never exposed to the network. A single dedicated managed data disk carries both the MariaDB database and Flarum's writable storage and uploads. An unauthenticated /healthz endpoint is provided for load balancer probes. For production, front port 80 with your own domain and TLS and set that address as the forum URL.
Flarum is free and open source software licensed under the MIT License. Flarum is a trademark of its respective owners; this image is provided by cloudimg and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Flarum project.