Problem installing shopware 6.4.17

Shopware 6 (English)
#1

Hi,

I want to test shopware. I try to install it on a test machine with Debian 10. Apache is set up to point the doc-root to the public folder.
From the Download-page or the Install-page I download https://www.shopware.com/en/Download/redirect/version/sw6/file/install_v6.4.17.0_37b398016799dadf0408ac6647d7a0903a477d99.zip
I unzip it and open the host. I will be greeted with 404 not found. The index.php is loaded and redirects to the URL /installer which is not there.
I checked the directory on the server, no such file. In the folder containing public, there is a README.md. This file seems to talk about a repository. The installation instructions outlined are CLI based and quite different from what the website say.
Do I have the correct installer file???

#2

Hi,

/installer is a virtual directory. You need to have your .htaccess readable and the mod_rewrite Apache module needs to be available.

Regards

#3

Hi Scoopex,

.htaccess is there and readable and mod_rewrite is active.
As I read the htaccess, if mod-rewrite was missing, it would redirect to index.php

thx, best

#4

Well, the one or the other is the cause of your problem. You may also want to check your server logfiles and if you just enabled the mod_rewrite module make sure to restart the Apache daemon.

Regards

#5

I checked my PHP modules, installed some, reloaded apache and page and voila - the installer is there.

Thx again

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