I am installing Magento 2.3 locally on Windows 10 with xampp. I downloaded the archive from Github, unzipped to c:\xampp\htdocs\magento2, and ran the installer from localhost/magento2/setup in my browser.
The installer finished with no errors, however when I go to the admin page, I get a blank page with a grayish background. When I go to localhost/magento2, I get this
When I look in magento2/var/log/system.log, there are some errors that say stuff like the following (each of these errors is repeated several times for a list of different file names)
main.ERROR: A symlink for "C:/xampp/htdocs/magento2/lib/web/requirejs/require.js" can't be created and placed to "C:/xampp/htdocs/magento2/pub/static/adminhtml/Magento/backend/en_US/requirejs/require.js". Warning!symlink(): Cannot create symlink, error code(1314) [] []
) [] []
main.CRITICAL: Invalid template file: 'C:/xampp/htdocs/magento2/app/code/Magento/Backend/view/adminhtml/templates/page/js/require_js.phtml' in module: 'Magento_Backend' block's name: 'require.js' [] []
EDIT:
I got the admin page working by changing the code in magento\lib\internal\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Validator.php
The original code was
public function isValid($filename)
{
$filename = str_replace('\\', '/', $filename);
if (!isset($this->_templatesValidationResults[$filename])) {
$this->_templatesValidationResults[$filename] =
($this->isPathInDirectories($filename, $this->_compiledDir)
|| $this->isPathInDirectories($filename, $this->moduleDirs)
|| $this->isPathInDirectories($filename, $this->_themesDir)
|| $this->_isAllowSymlinks)
&& $this->getRootDirectory()->isFile($this->getRootDirectory()->getRelativePath($filename));
}
return $this->_templatesValidationResults[$filename];
}
I changed it to
public function isValid($filename)
{
return true;
}
Since I'm new to Magento, I don't understand what this method is supposed to be doing (I assume it's validating a template file, but I don't know how or where). Furthermore, when I added a log statement to the original code to show the contents of $this->_templatesValidationResults[$filename] (right before the return statement), it printed several empty array elements. For example, it printed
[] []
[] []
[] []
[] []
It appears like Magento thinks the template files are invalid, but it doesn't give any reasons why they're invalid. Am I correct in saying this, and how would I either stop Magento from erroneously detecting the template files as invalid, or get the proper validation error message?
Possible Solution, and Further Questions
I traced the problem to the file magento\lib\internal\Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Validator.php
at the function
protected function isPathInDirectories($path, $directories)
{
if (!is_array($directories)) {
$directories = (array)$directories;
}
$realPath = $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path);
foreach ($directories as $directory) {
if (0 === strpos($realPath, $directory)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
The problem is that $path has forward slashes in it, but $realPath has backslashes, so the strpos never returns a match, and the function always returns false. I updated the function to
protected function isPathInDirectories($path, $directories)
{
if (!is_array($directories)) {
$directories = (array)$directories;
}
$realPath = $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path);
foreach ($directories as $directory) {
if (0 === strpos($realPath, $directory) || 0 === strpos($path, $directory)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
And now it works. I assume this is a Windows-only problem? Is this a bug in Magento that doesn't account for Windows file naming, or is there something I've done incorrectly in my setup?
