👋 Welcome to Flarum-In-A-Box!
Flarum-In-A-Box is a ready-to-run, all-in-one Docker container from 🎹 Piano | Tell that gives you a fully working Flarum 2.x forum with 80+ extensions pre-installed. No setup, no configuration — just launch and go.
What is it good for?
- 🧪 Demo & Evaluation — Quickly show off Flarum to stakeholders, clients, or your team without setting up a server
- 💻 Extension Development — A clean, reproducible Flarum environment to build and test extensions against
- 📚 Learning & Experimentation — Explore Flarum features, try out extensions, and learn how everything works
- 🏗️ Theme Development — Test themes like the included Avocado theme in a real Flarum instance
- 🎓 Workshops & Training — Spin up identical instances for every participant in minutes
Default Accounts
| Account | Username | Password | Role |
|---|
| Admin | admin | password | Full Admin Panel access |
| Moderator | moderator | password | Moderator group — can lock, hide, suspend, etc. |
| Member | user | password | Regular forum member |
| Members | user1 … user5 | password | Sample members (used in the Moderation Playground discussion) |
The admin account has full access to the Admin Panel (click your avatar → Administration). New users can sign up without email confirmation.
Important Notes
- ⚠️ Demo/playground image — fantastic for testing and development, but not for production. Data is ephemeral for the lifetime of the container.
- 🔑 Change the default passwords if exposing this beyond localhost.
Join the Conversation 💬
Loving Flarum-In-A-Box? Found a bug, have an extension idea, or just want to say hi? Come chat with us in the community thread on discuss.flarum.org — your feedback shapes what comes next!
Have fun exploring Flarum! 🚀
