Magento 2 installation stuck

Question

When trying to install Magento 2, the installation is currently stuck at 49% "Installing user configuration". I have tried changing the "vendor" directory to 777 as recommended by a couple of others here, though this hasn't worked. Is there anything else I can try?

For reference, I am using PHP7.0.7 on Ubuntu. Any other information needed to assist in answering, please comment.

Answer 1

As suggested in the comments under my question, I managed to complete a successful install of Magento 2 when installing it through composer.

Answer 2

In case someone else is having the same problem, most likely the max_execution_time is exceeded while the script runs. This can be confirmed by checking the response of the "start" request in the console (will be a 500 error) and the log file in /var/log/apache2/error.log

Just edit your php.ini and set the value from the original 30 seconds to something like 360 seconds.

The php.ini that you are using can be found using phpinfo() (php) or php --info (cli).

Restart your server and it should work fine.

Answer 3

I never could get passed "Installing user configuration..." (49%) when using the installation wizard, even after meeting all the requirements.

It installed in seconds without any error by using the command line install

magento setup:install

with all parameters, as described in the documentation.