So after abandoning MAMP and other approaches, I used Virtual Box on my Mac to create a Centos 7 environment with MariaDB 10.4.26 to recreate nearly exactly what's running my Nexcess live site. This lets me more closely mimic in dev what I have on Nexcess.
Problem remains the same as when I loaded with MAMP on my Mac Linux: the site installs completely (no errors), yet when I go to both backend and frontend url's, I get a blank screen.
One possible cause is that Magento doesn't create a symlink from ~/public_html to ~/public_html/pub. I've tried creating that symlink but am having trouble - I get the "already exists" error.
public_html]# ln -s /var/www/test.mydomain.com/public_html/pub/ /var/www/test.mydomain.com/public_html/
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/var/www/test.mydomain.com/public_html/pub’: File exists
Clearly, it needs to reach /pub to see the index.php file, yet calling magento by adding /pub/index.php to the url was something I tried, even though that's not the answer to fix this....
Is this my cause? Is there another reason why I'm getting a blank screen? Can someone give me the correct syntax for the symlink, and/or another possible cause/solution?
Thanks.
