no site configuration or install.php available

[DevCat]

Hi,

I'm trying to install ProcessWire on XAMPP localhost. I extracted the zip and put the files from master folder to website directory folder and when I go there with Firefox it says 404 page not found (no site configuration or install.php available). At least install.php surely is there. I'm doing WordPress installations on localhost almost every day and no problems. Does anyone here know what is cause for this error?

[wbmnfktr]

Narrow it down to possible problems in your setup.

1. Is it the right folder?
2. Can you access a test.html in that directory from your browser?
3. Does mod_rewrite work properly for that folder?
4. Have you setup a virtual host for it?

 

 

[DevCat]

7 minutes ago, wbmnfktr said:

Narrow it down to possible problems in your setup.

1. Is it the right folder?
2. Can you access a test.html in that directory from your browser?
3. Does mod_rewrite work properly for that folder?
4. Have you setup a virtual host for it?

 

 

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Yes after trying without ProcessWire files in there

4. Yes

[DevCat]

I tried from new folder with ProcessWire and it gave same error

[DevCat]

It tried few different folder names and it seems like it only works if there are no empty spaces in the name. Is this normal ProcessWire feature?

[wbmnfktr]

13 minutes ago, DevCat said:

3. Yes after trying without ProcessWire files in there

Ok... try to uncomment line 116 in the .htaccess

# RewriteBase /

How does your mod_rewrite settings for that directory look like?

I might need AllowOverride All.

[bernhard]

In my case when updating an ancient site today the issue was that I had this line in my config.php:

include('../files/config.php');

This file did exist on my remote server but not on my local DDEV setup. Changing this to my "new" setup from 2018/2022 fixed the issue 🙂