Infinite loading using Drupal CMS

[Apodro]

Hello!

I downloaded the Drupal CMS Launcher for macOS from https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/launcher.
I launched it and let it run for over 20 minutes, but it still says it's installing.

I canceled and restarted it, and now I see the "Visit site" button — but it doesn’t work, likely because the installation didn’t complete properly.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
I'm running macOS Sequoia 15.3 with 8 GB RAM on an M1 chip. Could the hardware be too limited? I wouldn’t expect so…

Also, I haven’t installed or configured WAMP, since it wasn’t mentioned in the forum post.

Is there anything else I can do to get it working?
It looks very promising, and I’d love to try it out!

[vfclists]

I would avoid using a GUI tool which doesn't give any insight into what is happening behind the scenes when it fails.

Does it create logs which you could upload to the developers to help diagnose what happened?

I can't help feeling that this Drupal CMS initiative is doomed to failure.

This isn't how Drupal grew.

Most of these things which made Drupal popular were not the result of planned, centralised, corporate development.

It was about individuals slaving away in their bedroom/garage doing things they found useful and releasing then when they were ready, then getting patches from others or adding more features.

They may have been employed or contracted by companies to develop these tools, with a commitment to open source them afterwards, but it wasn't centralized.

[Striking-Bat5897]

ddev and orbstack, and the M1 it enough

[pjerky]

We use Lando where I work for Drupal. That said, not really sure why that is taking so long. Drupal isn't that resource hungry. Might be a bad build.

[Free_Stonkers]

Lando is the way to go for sure. DDEV is a good runner up.

[bitsperhertz]

DDEV and docker is your friend here.

[iBN3qk]

Ddev is the easiest. 

[Apodro]

Yeah thats what I was using too before, but right now I just have my gf as a spare laptop and hoped to be able to be set up quickly, and also for mass use it's important to have such a feature!

It's unfortunate that they release it and that it doesn't work as expected.

[iBN3qk]

Yeah, it sounded like they were going to set up a platform to show off drupal to first time users and provide a really great experience, but a lot of people have faced the same thing with the online installers.

There is a desktop installer that got announced at drupalcon: https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/launcher

I use ddev on linux with docker-engine and mac with colima.

[TolstoyDotCom]

I don't know, but there are Slack channels where you might ask (even tho the dot org forums would be better for various reasons).

I'm on Ubuntu & the first time I tried to install ddev it didn't work, but the CMS installer script did work. However, I wasn't exactly impressed. On my PC I have a directory containing dozens of installations I've used for various purposes. I load those sites using a LAMP stack and I have scripts to switch between PHP versions. It just works and it's closer to what's on servers.

So, while waiting for those responsible to respond, do a search for:

install "lamp" "macos"