Packages area within the dashboard not loading and giving an error.

[grahamburty]

Hi all,
I am coming across an error when trying to add a package (theme) to build my website.
I am using automad v2.0.0 alpha 17.
The install is on a live server (https) but installed inside a folder as the old site is still live until I can create the new. Maybe this is the problem?
All is working fine and I can build the site as necessary. However when I navigate to the Packages section within the dashboard it struggles to load, the black bar at the top gets about 75% across then stalls, and it gives an error:

Failed to load the resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()
array_filter(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given

I have tried clearing the cache and using different browsers.

Any thoughts?

I am in the process of setting up ssh access to the live server to instal the files via composer but is it not possible to manually add the theme files to a folder? If it is the Packages folder then I am worried that the folder will not be accessible.

Thanks in advance, Graham

[marcantondahmen]

Hi there! It really could be that nesting installations may cause this issue since the parent installation interferes with the routing of the nested one. Without testing it is difficult to really know. Would it be possible for you to quickly move to old site as well to a subdirectory and therefore have both versions side by side instead of being nested?

The second question would be if you installed the nested version correctly from the dist repo including its composer.json file?

[grahamburty]

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I have moved my current site to a subdirectory and moved the automad instal to the top level and tried to load Packages again.
Sadly the error was the same but I got a bit more error reporting detail this time - see attached.

No I downloaded the source files from Github and uploaded them to the server (Dreamhost if it matters, using php 8.3). I had trouble setting up a local server on my Mac using MAMP. I was going around in circles trying to resolve permissions. But I can try again.

[marcantondahmen]

It looks like that the server can't fetch package data from the registry for some reason. Is it possible to check if curl is installed as PHP extension?

[grahamburty]

Hi, yes curl is installed by default.
Sadly I keep getting errors and I cannot resolve or create a website on the remote server. I think because of using a shared server I cannot run composer on the remote server to install the package, so I create it locally and upload, this may be an issue?

I have tried many times to create a local setup on my Mac, using MAMP and XAMP but it seems impossible to sort permissions and actually load a working website. If anyone is developing locally on a Mac I would appreciate a guide.

So I am now reverting to V1 which is working ok on the remote server but it feels old already! V2 is a good upgrade!

Thanks for your help, I will revisit later.

[marcantondahmen]

I think another option to run it locally would be Docker. The official image ships all that's needed out of the box. You can bind the actual installation directory to a local directory and copy that on over to you website.

However, it should actually be enough to just download and unzip the official dist repository to your webspace. Composer is not required for that.