The PHP symlink method is unavailable or does not work correctly.

Hi, newbie alert.
Stuck at the first hurdle.
I have installed fresh XAMPP on windows 10 Pro and downloaded the install script.
on running http://localhost/contao-manager.phar.php
I get the following error on the second page:

The PHP symlink method is unavailable or does not work correctly.
Unable to create symbolic link due to error code 1314: 'A required privilege is not held by the client'. Do you have the required Administrator-rights?

Any help on how to proceed from here ?

Regards,
Mucho

You must run XAMPP with administrator rights or give your user the right to create a symlink (via gpedit.msc or Polsedit).

How did you set the DocumentRoot? Does localhost directly point to the web/ subfolder?

thanks xchs,

I ran XAMPP 'as administrator' and was able to progress to the install phase.

However, still no joy.

A few screens down the line and the installer is stuck here:

Installing Contao Application
Installing Composer dependencies …
C:^\XAMPP^\php^\php.exe "-q" "C:/xampp/htdocs/contao/web/contao-manager.phar.php" "composer" "install" "--prefer-dist" "--no-dev" "--no-progress" "--no-suggest" "--no-ansi" "--no-interaction" "--optimize-autoloader" 2>&1

regards,
Mucho

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Originally Posted by xchs

How did you set the DocumentRoot? Does localhost directly point to the web/ subfolder?

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Yes docroot points directly to web folder (is this the right way?)

DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/contao/web"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/contao/web">

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Originally Posted by mucho

thanks xchs,

I ran XAMPP 'as administrator' and was able to progress to the install phase.

However, still no joy.

A few screens down the line and the installer is stuck here:

Installing Contao Application
Installing Composer dependencies …
C:^\XAMPP^\php^\php.exe "-q" "C:/xampp/htdocs/contao/web/contao-manager.phar.php" "composer" "install" "--prefer-dist" "--no-dev" "--no-progress" "--no-suggest" "--no-ansi" "--no-interaction" "--optimize-autoloader" 2>&1

regards,
Mucho

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My Bad, it eventually did complete the installation. I was just a tad impatient.:cool:

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Originally Posted by mucho

Yes docroot points directly to web folder (is this the right way?)

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Yep.

You can also configure different VirtualHosts to run multiple web applications at the same time.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by mucho

My Bad, it eventually did complete the installation. I was just a tad impatient.:cool:

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Yes, the installation and resolving of the dependencies can take a few minutes.