magento2 deployment - cannot reach setup page

[syffs]

I'm running this under WSL, everything seems to work properly (I can reach http://test.project.localhost/info.php and see phpinfo) except magento.

here are the steps, I went through:

1. download magento2-2.3.3 with sample data
2. extract to workspace/project/mage, here is how it looks:
   
3. trying to reach setup page:
   • http://project.mage.localhost - ends up on http://project.mage.localhost/setup with fatal error Too many redirects
   • http://project.mage.magento2.localhost - ends up on http://project.mage.magento2.localhost/setup/ with 404
     

did i miss anything ?

[peterjaap]

Use 'magento2' instead of 'mage' as your dir name and you should see the site at http://project.magento2.localhost

[syffs]

Thanks for the quick reply ! I did that:

http://project.magento2.localhost is redirected to http://project.magento2.localhost/setup/ but still ends up with 404

[JeroenBoersma]

Yeah, because we favor commandline / composer installations.

Open up a console in PHPStorm

bin/magento setup:install

https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/install-gde/composer.html#command-line

[JeroenBoersma]

I checked, we have the nginx reference, let met check this out... Please hold the line :)

[syffs]

Please hold the line :)

sure thanks for the help !

Open up a console in PHPStorm

bin/magento setup:install

Indeed I managed to get a working magento through CLI install. I guess there's something blocking the web install in nginx config (I'm not an nginx expert tho).

Just to be sure, when you say "open a console", you mean dev console, and then bin/magento setup:install, because the installer does need direct access to the DB ?

[JeroenBoersma]

Yes yes yes... I found the underlaying problem... Which was in the Nginx configuration.

In the Magento 2 configuration I forward to the @php location.
Location directive in nginx inherits the server root and not the location root set in another location section.

I added a variable to forward the docroot explicitly. From now on anyone with Magento 2 can use the /setup path for Magento 2.

[JeroenBoersma]

Just to be sure, when you say "open a console", you mean dev console, and then bin/magento setup:install, because the installer does need direct access to the DB ?

yes dev console. In dev console the db is also available.

[JeroenBoersma]

Also /update directive works correctly now... All resolved then ;)

[JeroenBoersma]

If anything, don't hesitate!

[syffs]

Thanks a lot, it all works now ! Magento browsing is sometimes ok and sometimes insanely slow, any suggestion to speed it up ?

[JeroenBoersma]

Yes, this is because of developer mode... This means it'll try to create the files on the fly....

You could run a

# Generate static files for en_US(choose any other if you have a other locale, or define 2 or more)
bin/magento set:sta:dep -fa admin en_US
# Generate static files for frontend
bin/magento set:sta:dep -f -t Magento/Blank en_US nl_NL de_DE

Doing so will really speed up the first time load...

Also take a look at cache-clean.js implementation.