TYPO3 v14 DDEV/Composer installation does not create public/typo3 folder

[jfroehl]

Following the steps in the tutorial on https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/tutorial-getting-started/main/en-us/Installation/Install.html, the ddev composer create-project "typo3/cms-base-distribution:^14" command does not create the public/typo3 folder.

Output after running the install: ddev composer create-project was successful.

Moving on, installing the Camino theme and running the TYPO3 CLI setup.
After entering admin credentials and project name, the setup throws this exception:

Uncaught TYPO3 Exception TYPO3\CMS\Install\Command\SetupCommand::getFallbackValueEnvOrOption(): Return value must be of type string|false, null returned
thrown in file /var/www/html/vendor/typo3/cms-install/Classes/Command/SetupCommand.php
in line 681

Failed to run typo3 setup --server-type=other --driver=mysqli --host=db --port=3306 --dbname=db --username=db --password=db --create-site: exit status 1

Further information:

• DDEV version 1.25.1
• Docker 29.2.1 and 29.3.0
• Empty installation directory: no Git, no IDE with folder opened
• Tested on two different systems
• Contents of /public after create-project: _assets/, index.php
• Contents of /public after typo3 setup: _assets/, fileadmin/, index.php, typo3temp/
• Using typo3/cms-base-distribution:^13 does create the public/typo3 folder
• When v14.0 was released, I already installed it and use it since then

Let me know if you need more information.

Jochen

[garvinhicking]

Thanks! It seems to work if I use --create-site='' instead of --create-site only. Thanks to @sbuerk for that tip.

Can you see if this solves it for you, then we can adapt our configuration of course.

[garvinhicking]

Ah hang on, --create-site='' will effectively DISABLE the site creation. So actually best is to omit '--create-site' because then it will be asked for?

[jfroehl]

I tried it using a valid site name, and now using an empty string. That helps to get rid of the exception.

The bigger problem remains: No public/typo3 after create-project. When installing the v13 base-distribution, this folder is created right after create-project.

[garvinhicking]

Related: https://forge.typo3.org/issues/109201

[garvinhicking]

@jfroehl There no longer is a public/typo3 subdirectory: https://docs.typo3.org/c/typo3/cms-core/main/en-us/Changelog/13.0/Deprecation-87889-TYPO3BackendEntrypointScriptDeprecated.html#deprecation-87889-1705928143

[jfroehl]

Argh, of course! :-/

Omitting the --create-site option and entering a valid site URL in interaction mode does work fine.

Thanks!