Magento – Issue with Magento 2.3 installation stuck at 0%

Thanks to @Nickool, I found out apache mod_rewrite was not enabled.

So I ran:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Added the following lines to my /etc/apache2/sites-available/my.host.com

    <Directory /var/www/html/m2>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

Then ran:

sudo service apache2 restart

And now the installation is finishing.

The mod_rewrite requirement is stated here: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/system-requirements.html

But not here: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/prereq/apache.html

I reckon the doc needs a small update

Yes, This is the problem with windows. Windows uses "\" as separator, the array "directories" contains entries with "/" as separator, so the check will always fail.

So you need to fix this by replacing the separator in core file:

Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Validator

function isPathInDirectories replace below code in isPathInDirectories function

$realPath = str_replace('\\', '/', $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path));