First Neos Flow install

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I installed the base distribution with composer create-project neos/neos-base-distribution and when running flow.bat server:run I get following error:

The system cannot find the path specified.

  Type: Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Exception\SubProcessException
  Code: 1355480641
  File: C:\Users\Kevin\Desktop\Projekte\neos\Packages\Framework\Neos.Flow\Classes\C
        ore\Booting\Scripts.php
  Line: 719

Open Data/Logs/Exceptions/201904262116056e39d2.txt for a full stack trace.

The error was thrown when executing this command:

SET FLOW_ROOTPATH=C:/Users/Kevin/Desktop/Projekte/neos/&SET FLOW_PATH_TEMPORARY_BASE=C:/Users/Kevin/Desktop/Projekte/neos/Data//Temporary&SET FLOW_CONTEXT=Development&SET XDEBUG_CONF
IG=idekey=FLOW_SUBREQUEST remote_port=9001&"C:/php/php" -c "C:\xampp\php\php.ini" "C:/Users/Kevin/Desktop/Projekte/neos/Packages/Framework/Neos.Flow/Classes/Core/../../Scripts/flow.p
hp" "neos.flow:core:compile" 2>&1

The stack trace:

Exception #1355480641 in line 403 of C:\Users\Kevin\Desktop\Projekte\neos\Packages\Framework\Neos.Flow\Classes\Core\Booting\Scripts.php: The system cannot find the path specified.

12 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Scripts::executeCommand("neos.flow:core:compile", array|17|)
11 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Scripts::initializeProxyClasses(Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
10 call_user_func(array|2|, Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
9 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Step::__invoke(Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
8 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Sequence::invokeStep(Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Step, Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
7 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Sequence::invokeStep(Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Step, Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
6 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Sequence::invokeStep(Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Step, Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
5 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Sequence::invokeStep(Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Step, Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
4 Neos\Flow\Core\Booting\Sequence::invoke(Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap)
3 Neos\Flow\Cli\CommandRequestHandler::boot("Runtime")
2 Neos\Flow\Cli\CommandRequestHandler::handleRequest()
1 Neos\Flow\Core\Bootstrap::run()

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

2

I have no experience running Neos on Windows. Mostly Linux and Mac are used.

Did you try the dev setup descriptions from the docs here: https://docs.neos.io/cms/installation-development-setup

3

Yes, I did everything in that tutorial, still gives the same error.

4

Did you try one of the docker variants of the tutorial? The simple setup is only recommendet for Linux und Mac.

5

Yes @mficzel

6

Fixed this issue by just entering those commands one for one in the command line. AND “C:/php/php” doesnt exist on my pc, dont know why it tried to open php via that folder, just copied the xampp php to that location and worked!

7

See the Setting:

Neos:
  Flow:
    core:
       phpPathAndFilename:

We cannot possibly know that but fill it with some sensible default for linux that works in 90% of all cases, but on windows there is no default path for executables, so you will need to set the setting to your php path.