Installed xampp on windows 11. created user 'everyone' with all privileges on folder htdocs, copied jpa file and kickstart.php to folder.
Kickstart starts but stops with error "Could not upload robots.txt.dist"
#38662 Could not upload robots.txt.dist
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Environment Information
PHP version
8.1.12
CMS Type
Joomla!
CMS Version
4.2.5
Backup Tool Version
9.5.0
Kickstart version
7.1.2
Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 06 March 2023 00:54 CST
Sunday, 05 March 2023 03:07 CST
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
> created user 'everyone'
The Everyone user is a built-in. Do you mean you added that user to c:\xampp\htdocs? If so, did you remember to do it recursively (apply to all files and subfolders)? I suspect you didn't and you already had a Joomla installation in there the files for which were added by your local user. As a result PHP does not have adequate permissions to overwrite them which is why you are getting this error only after extracting the entire installation folder, i.e. as soon as you try to overwrite an existing file.
Delete all files and folders from inside c:\xampp\htdocs. This should leave that folder completely empty. Now check again that the Everyone built-in user has full privileges on that folder. Then retry the extraction and it will work.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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Sunday, 05 March 2023 22:21 CST
benw987
Thank you for looking into this.
Despite the security settings – everyone has ‘full control’, the issue remains.
By copying the uncompressed site (filezilla) to my local machine – the htdocs folder, kickstart carries on and updates the database. So I have a workaround, despite Microsoft.
Monday, 06 March 2023 00:54 CST
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
If I recall correctly, Windows Home had some issues with permissions. However, I have not used Windows as my main OS since 2010 and I have not used Windows Home since 2009 so what's going on with Windows 10/11 Home I can't possibly tell you.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!