WordPress setup on local - "npm run env:install" not working on windows

[ashokrd2013]

Platform

• Windows 10 OS
• Docker
• Node & NPM

Steps to reproduce:

1. Cloned WP develop repo using git clone ​https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop.git & followed README

2. Navigate to the cloned directory - cd wp-develop

3. Installed npm dependencies for the project - npm install

4. Executed other commands - npm run build:dev & npm run env:start

5. While running the - npm run env:install gives me an error that WP_CLI can't create a config file at the root.

I looked out for a solution - finding one reply regarding the permission issue seems to be convincing, however, doesn't give any solution/steps to fix it.

[ashokrd2013]

More details of the error:

Execution of the command > npm run env:install

WordPress@6.1.0 env:install D:\wamp64\www\wordpress-develop
node ./tools/local-env/scripts/install.js

Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Generated 'wp-config.php' file.
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Updated the constant 'WP_DEBUG' in the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Added the constant 'WP_DEBUG_LOG' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Added the constant 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Added the constant 'SCRIPT_DEBUG' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done
Success: Added the constant 'WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the value 'local'.
Cloning into 'tests/phpunit/data/plugins/wordpress-importer'...
Creating wordpress-develop_cli_run ... done

Warning: file_get_contents(/var/www/src/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php on line 654
Error: Strange wp-config.php file: wp-settings.php is not loaded directly.
ERROR: 1
(node:10148) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Command failed: docker-compose run --rm cli db reset --yes

at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:790:11)
at execSync (child_process.js:863:15)
at wp_cli (D:\wamp64\www\wordpress-develop\tools\local-env\scripts\install.js:48:2)
at D:\wamp64\www\wordpress-develop\tools\local-env\scripts\install.js:38:3
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)

(Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)
(node:10148) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without
a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag --unhandled-rejections=strict (see ​https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:10148) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

[ashokrd2013]

Error description

[bgoewert]

@ashokrd2013 I was not able to reproduce this. Can you please provide some more details about your environment/platform? If the issue still occurs for you, I would suggest that you update all aspects of your environment/platform.

Reproduction Report

This report validates that the issue cannot be reproduced.

Environment

• OS: Windows 10 Home Build 19045
• Web Server: Docker Desktop v4.15.0 (Docker Engine v20.10.21)
• PHP: 7.4.33
• WordPress: trunk
• Browser: N/A
• Theme: N/A
• Active Plugins: N/A
• Composer v2.5.1
• NVM for Windows v1.1.10
• Node v14.21.2
• NPM v6.14.17

Actual Results

• ❌ Error condition does not occur (unable to reproduce).

[bgoewert]

Marking as invalid as a result of the reproduction report on comment:6 unless someone else is able to reproduce this on Windows.

Edit: should have marked as worksforme. See ​ticket properties. Now I know.

[ashokrd2013]

@bgoewert

I can reproduce it with following Reproduction Report

Environment

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OS: Windows 10 Pro Build 19044.2364
Web Server: Docker Desktop v4.15.0 (Docker Engine v20.10.21)
PHP: 7.4.33
WordPress: trunk
Browser: N/A
Theme: N/A
Active Plugins: N/A
Composer v2.5.1
NVM for Windows v1.1.9
Node v14.21.1
NPM v6.14.17

[bgoewert]

@ashokrd2013 It seems that this is a configuration issue, not an issue with wordpress-develop and would have been better posted to ​wordpress.org/support. But I don't mind to help out here.

Questions

1. Are you using WSL2 or Hyper-V backend?
2. Is your user a local admin and/or in the docker-users group?
   • You can check it by using net localgroup docker-users
   • If not, you can add it with net localgroup docker-users <user> /add
3. Are you using WAMP? D:\wamp64\www\ I noticed this in your path and it may be causing permission issues (idk, I don't use wamp or xampp so I don't know how the permissions work for them). However, I imagine it would still work if your user was a local admin.
   • Just for testing purposes, try cloning ​wordpress-develop into a different directory on your C:\ drive.

Steps I just tested again, without issue

1. Clone ​wordpress-develop
2. cd wordpress-develop
3. npm install
4. npm run env:reset
5. npm build:dev
6. npm run env:start
7. Navigate to ​localhost:8889, notice that I am redirected to /wp-admin/install.php.
8. npm run env:install
9. Navigate to ​localhost:8889/wp-admin/install.php, notice it says "Already Installed".

PS C:\Users\goewe\Desktop\Projects\WordPress\wordpress-develop> npm run env:install

> WordPress@6.2.0 env:install C:\Users\goewe\Desktop\Projects\WordPress\wordpress-develop
> node ./tools/local-env/scripts/install.js

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Success: Generated 'wp-config.php' file.
Success: Updated the constant 'WP_DEBUG' in the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Success: Added the constant 'WP_DEBUG_LOG' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Success: Added the constant 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Success: Added the constant 'SCRIPT_DEBUG' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the raw value 'true'.
Success: Added the constant 'WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE' to the 'wp-config.php' file with the value 'local'.
Cloning into 'tests/phpunit/data/plugins/wordpress-importer'...
Success: Database reset.
Success: WordPress installed successfully.

[bgoewert]

@ashokrd2013 Just wanted to follow up to see if you could provide some answers to the questions in comment:9.

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As an aside, I'd also would like to note that I am having a similar, if not the same, permission issue on Linux (Pop!_OS) while trying to use env:install. However, I believe that this can be addressed by using sudo. Although if you are like me and have nvm installed, this is in the user context. To use the nvm version of npm with sudo, you'd have to create a symlink some other method of sharing ~/.nvm.

Edit: Solved by changing the entire wordpress-develop directory permissions to 777.

[ashokrd2013]

@bgoewert Thanks for helping me to provide different options to solve this issue.

I got it solved on another machine. I am unsure that either it will be a permission issue or something else, however, I got my problem solved.

[mrinal013]

I am facing a similar issue, ​https://wordpress.slack.com/files/U0HQW02SZ/F05BHDF2AUX/image.png

OS: Windows 10