# Installation Problem with DreamFactory beta **URL:** \ **Category:** GitHub Installers\ **Created:** [October 14, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614 "2015-10-14T12:22:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/1 "2015-10-14T12:22:05Z")
I downloaded DreamFactory beta from github. completed composer install and even done composer update then php argisan migrate and then php artisan db:seed When I run the app using php artisan serve, it asks me to create a root account. When I submit my admin user details, it takes me to an error page with the following details ``` FatalErrorException in SplashController.php line 51: Call to undefined method DreamFactory\Core\Components\Registrar::createFirstAdmin() in SplashController.php line 51 at FatalErrorException->__construct() in HandleExceptions.php line 133 at HandleExceptions->fatalExceptionFromError() in HandleExceptions.php line 118 at HandleExceptions->handleShutdown() in HandleExceptions.php line 0 at SplashController->createFirstUser() in Controller.php line 256 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:256}() in Controller.php line 256 at Controller->callAction() in ControllerDispatcher.php line 164 at ControllerDispatcher->call() in ControllerDispatcher.php line 112 at ControllerDispatcher->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:139}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:103}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then() in ControllerDispatcher.php line 114 at ControllerDispatcher->callWithinStack() in ControllerDispatcher.php line 69 at ControllerDispatcher->dispatch() in Route.php line 201 at Route->runWithCustomDispatcher() in Route.php line 134 at Route->run() in Router.php line 704 at Router->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:139}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:103}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then() in Router.php line 706 at Router->runRouteWithinStack() in Router.php line 671 at Router->dispatchToRoute() in Router.php line 631 at Router->dispatch() in Kernel.php line 236 at Kernel->Illuminate\Foundation\Http\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:139}() in Pipeline.php line 139 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in HandleCors.php line 43 at HandleCors->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in FirstUserCheck.php line 43 at FirstUserCheck->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in ShareErrorsFromSession.php line 49 at ShareErrorsFromSession->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in StartSession.php line 62 at StartSession->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in AddQueuedCookiesToResponse.php line 37 at AddQueuedCookiesToResponse->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in EncryptCookies.php line 59 at EncryptCookies->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in CheckForMaintenanceMode.php line 42 at CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle() in Pipeline.php line 124 at call_user_func_array:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:124}() in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at call_user_func:{/home/mfissehaye/workspace/projects/dfactory/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:103}() in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then() in Kernel.php line 122 at Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter() in Kernel.php line 87 at Kernel->handle() in index.php line 53 in server.php line 21 at {main}() in server.php line 0 ``` What is going wrong? ---
**Author:** ![formerstaff](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/formerstaff/32/1133_2.png) [@formerstaff](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/formerstaff)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/2 "2015-10-14T18:35:17Z")
I’m not familiar with php artisan serve. After you seed the database you should just have to load the site in a web browser. It will walk you through creating the first admin. You’ll want to check your Apache error logs to see if anything is generated there. One problem I see a lot is the Apache process user not having write access to the public and storage directories. ---
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/3 "2015-10-15T09:04:01Z")
Okay thank you @drewpearce. `php artisan serve` is a development server for **Laravel**. I don’t undersrtand the configurations on the **Enable site** section of the [**Install Debian Ubuntu guide**](https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/dsp-core/wiki/Install-Debian-Ubuntu). So I chose to just use the php artisan serve command. So please explain the apache configuration instead if you don’t recomment `php artisan serve` ---
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/4 "2015-10-15T09:38:51Z")
I looked into the code and found out that `SplashController` is trying to call the `createFirstAdmin` function on a Registrar object at line number 51. The `Registrar` class doesn’t have that function. The `createFirstAdmin` function is only found in the `User` model inside `vendor/dreamfactory/df-core/src/Models/User.php`. And it is a static function. I tried replacing `$registrar->` with `User::createFirstAdmin` to no success. ---
**Author:** ![jeffreystables](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jeffreystables/32/173_2.png) [@jeffreystables](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jeffreystables)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/5 "2015-10-16T19:27:53Z")
Code changes have been made recently in these areas. Are you on the latest build? Master or develop branch? ---
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/6 "2015-10-19T08:35:23Z")
Thank you @jeffreystables I pulled in the changes and faced yet another problem. It successfully create the new user. It attempts to go to /dreamfactory/dist, shows an empty page and throws a `RestException - Could not find a service for dreamfactory`. Looking for issues on github, I learned that running `composer install` before setting up `.env` was the problem. So I did exactly the reverse. I setup `.env` before running `composer install`. But that didn’t solve the problem. It still throws the Rest Exception. ---
**Author:** ![jeffreystables](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jeffreystables/32/173_2.png) [@jeffreystables](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jeffreystables)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/7 "2015-10-19T18:33:52Z")
I checked with our engineers on this one. There shouldn’t be a need to edit the code or deviate from the install process to get this working. @aislam helped me review and reiterate the following steps. We tested this several times this morning. 1. `git clone https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/dreamfactory.git newInstall` 2. `composer install --no-dev` ( Run this inside `newInstall/` directory. This will also copy `.env-dist` to `.env` and will run `php artisan app:generate` to generate the application key used for data encryption/decryption) 3. Edit `.env` file to enter your database information. (Make sure an empty database exists with proper credentials ) 4. Make sure web server can write/read to/from `storage/` and `bootstrap/cache/` directories recursively. 5. Launch the instance from the browser. It should greet you with a welcome and then run the migration/seeder to setup the database, followed by prompting you to create the first admin user. > Or if the first launch from browser not running the migrate and/or seeder properly then start the process again from beginning and after step 03 do the following… > … > 4. run `php artisan migrate` > 5. run `php artisan db:seed` > 6. Make sure web server can write/read to/from `storage/` and `bootstrap/cache/` directories recursively. > 7. Launch the instance from the browser. It will skip the welcome page and will prompt you to create the first admin user. Setting the directory permissions right on both `storage/` and `bootstrap/cache/` is critical. This should be done after all command line setup actions and before launching the instance in the browser. Running command-line `php artisan` generates log files owned by the current user (not Apache) and therefore can prevent Apache from being able to write there. ---
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/8 "2015-10-20T14:11:28Z")
Thanks @jeffreystables I followed the exact same steps. But I am getting the same error. The thing is I am using php artisan serve to serve the webpage. Can you test it with this development server and tell me what you found. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Merhawi\_Fissehaye](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/Merhawi_Fissehaye)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/9 "2015-10-21T11:47:21Z")
Thank you @jeffreystables. I was finally able to get everything working using apache. May be there is a problem with the `php artisan serve` command. Thank you for the continued support ---
**Author:** ![jeffreystables](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/jeffreystables/32/173_2.png) [@jeffreystables](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/jeffreystables)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/10 "2015-10-21T13:07:43Z")
We haven’t worked with `php artisan serve` before, but we’ll look into it. Glad you were able to get it working the same way we do. ---
**Author:** ![aislam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/aislam/32/421_2.png) [@aislam](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/aislam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/11 "2015-10-22T14:05:37Z")
`php artisan serve` works now. See the README here [https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/dreamfactory/tree/develop](https://github.com/dreamfactorysoftware/dreamfactory/tree/develop) (develop branch) ---
**Author:** ![formerstaff](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.dreamfactory.com/formerstaff/32/1133_2.png) [@formerstaff](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/formerstaff)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/installation-problem-with-dreamfactory-beta/1614/12 "2016-01-06T17:32:58Z")