OpenCart loading project goes to install/index.php which is NOT FOUND

Question

I have cloned an Open Cart project into htdocs directory of XAMPP and in this cloned project there is a file named config-dist.php and I have changed that to config.php with these credentials:

define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysqli');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost'); 
define('DB_USERNAME', 'root');    
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');         
define('DB_DATABASE', 'shop'); 
define('DB_PORT', '3306');  

Now when I want to load the project from this url: http://localhost/shop it suddenly goes to http://localhost/shop/install/index.php and prints this:

Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server.

I don't know why it redirects to this url while there is no install directory in the project at all!

So how to solve this issue and load this opencart project via Xampp?

Also mention that there is no .htaccess in the root directory.

Answer 1

You should also add this difination to your config file

define('DIR_APPLICATION', 'Your directory to catalog folder');

then your application will started normally.