Error in Installing Magento 2.0

Question

I am new to Magento. I have installed Magento on localhost and I am using XAMPP (Windows) server. The installation was successful.

And when I opened the home page, it was so blank with no images on it

Store home page:

When I opened the console I got the following errors

Console errors:

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Install composer. You can use Composer to install Magento 2. It is a tool for dependent management in PHP which allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and install them for you. Composer enables you to manage Magento 2, extensions, and their dependencies

Answer 2

It is a common problem on windows servers (mostly local xampp servers) because these servers dont have symlinks.

Do this to fix it:

1. go to app/etc/di.xml and delete name="view_preprocessed" in virtualType name="developerMaterialization" section.
2. go to pub/static and delete all files except the .htaccess

after that I installed it again and it worked

Answer 3

Check permissions of the /pub/media and pub/static folders

system permissions for Magento 2