Installation with Contao Manager

Hello,

I am trying to install Contao with the Contao Manager.
Installation on localhost running Bitnami Wamp.
This is a completely new installation

The installation results:
ERROR 500 Unknown installation status
Some files were found on your server but no known Contao version could be detected.
You must either manually repair your application or remove the following files and folders to install Contao:
- 503.html
- applications.html
- bitnami.css
- favicon.ico
- img
- index.html

After deleting the files, the Contao Manager reports "ERROR 500 Unknown installation status"
Thanks and regards

Hi Acmiron,
welcome to the Contao forum!

It looks like there are some files in the folder above /web, where you put the contao-manager.phar.php.
Maybe these files were prepared by your hoster, so it was ok to delete them. But your first installation attempt left some files too. Perhaps it is easiest to just start from scratch again ;).

BTW: the recommended directory structure is discussed here: https://community.contao.org/de/show...l=1#post513884

In your case the document_root must point to
<folder provided by hoster>/<yourProject>/web

Put the conato-manager-phar.php in the /web folder.
Since <yourProject> is initially empty, the installer will not complain.

Hey folkfreund,

thanks for the information.

Today I have deleted all the files and made other attempts to install Contao, without success.

On localhost a directory was created named: G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php
Started Mozilla with address 127.0.0.1/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php and the installation starts as shown in the screenshot

Anhang 22930

I did "Run Composer".

A new windows appears with:
Installing Composer dependencies …
G:/bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/php/php.exe -q G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php composer install --prefer-dist --no-dev --no-progress --no-suggest --no-ansi --no-interaction --optimize-autoloader

After about 45 minutes "canceled". Started a completely new fresh installation under G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/public_html/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php with the same result.

I want to setup a website on localhost and after completion transfer it to my domain with either Akeeba or Putty.

Regards

Ah, you are working locally on windows...

I think you will have to setup a virtual host in your apache. This must point a virtual domain on the /web folder of your installation. So the URL of the contao-manager will not be 127.0.0.1/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php but
testing.eu/contao-manager.phar.php

I assume that you setup a vhost for local domain "testing.eu" similar to this:
(Note: I do not use a Windows system, so maybe this is not totally correct.
Please search the forum for "Windows XAMPP vhost" or just google for "apache2 vhost configuration" for more info.)

Code:

---

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
    # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
    # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
    # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
    # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
    # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
    # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
    #ServerName www.example.com

    ServerAdmin you@home.de
    ServerName testing.eu
    ServerAlias www.testing.eu
    DocumentRoot G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu/web

    <Directory G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu/web/>
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from All

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

    # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
    # error, crit, alert, emerg.
    # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
    # modules, e.g.
    #LogLevel info ssl:warn

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
    # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
    # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
    # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
    # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
    #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

---

Did the following to install contao.

In windows hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost # phpMyAdmin access to the Database MySQL
127.0.0.1 testing.eu # Contao installation
127.0.0.1 myjoom.eu # Joomla trial installation to check hosts are working

In G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/conf/httpd.conf added
<VirtualHost *:81>
ServerName testing.eu
ServerAlias www.testing.eu
DocumentRoot "G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:81>
ServerName myjoom.eu
ServerAlias www.myjoom.eu
DocumentRoot "G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/myjoom.eu"
</VirtualHost>


created two directories, named testing.eu and myjoom.eu under
G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu and thereunder the subdirectory /web
In this directory contao-manager.phar was placed and renamed to contao-manager.phar.php

The second directory is: G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/myjoom.eu

Entered in Mozilla:
127.0.0.1:81/web/contao-manager.phar.php --> URL not found
127.0.0.1:81/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php --> It defaults to 127.0.0.1:81/contao-manager.phar.php --> URL not found
Entered again 127.0.0.1:81/testing.eu/web/contao-manager.phar.php and the installation process starts up to Installing Dependencies and thereafter nothing happens.

Also changed DocumentRoot to "G:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.2.22-0/apache2/htdocs/testing.eu/web" with the same result.

In the second directory myjoom.eu Joomla is installed without problems. I can also install in another VirtualHost container an application.

Something I am doing wrong but have no idea

Regards

As I told you in my example above, for Contao it is essential that DocumentRoot points to the /web folder of your Contao installation! And you will need the section

Code:

---

AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

---

from my example for the routes to work properly.

Contao 4 uses the Symphony framework, so maybe the requirements are different from those of Joomla.

Another note: if you are using Windows, there might be issues with symbolic links required by Contao installation. Please search the forum for "symbolic links windows". I'm not familiar with this, sorry.