Contao 4 - Troubleshooting

Contao Root Page not found (404)

The alias of start (root) page has to be index

Reset admin password

Change admin user password with phpMyAdmin: • login to phpMyAdmin and select the right database
• search for table tl_user
• search for the admin user
• generate new encrypted password with https://bcrypt-generator
• fill encrypted password to password field in database and save
• now you can go to Contao backend and login with the new password

Contao install tool blocked

set installCount in TL_CONFIG to 0:

$GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['installCount'] = 0;

File: system/config/localconfig.php

memory_limit issue using composer.phar

To get the current memory_limit value, run:

php -r "echo ini_get('memory_limit').PHP_EOL;"

Use -1 for unlimited:

php -d memory_limit=-1 composer.phar <...>

Problems with XAMPP SSH module

Remove # from following line in c:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf

#LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

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