Installed fresh Magento 2.1 store (php 7.0.8), with /pub as root web directory from command line and using tar.gz file. Everything seems to be fine, but when I go to admin panel under: System -> Tools the link for the "Web Setup Wizard" is missing.
/setup is aliased correctly on the webserver, and going directly to /setup while logged in as admin results in page saying "Welcome to Magento Admin, your online store headquarters. To use the Magento setup wizard sign into your Admin account and navigate to System => Tools => Web Setup Wizard"
Am I missing something? Didn't see a bug/issue with this on github. Also, is setting the docroot to /pub still the recommended configuration?
Best Answer
As you noted this has been confirmed as an issue on Github here: github.com/magento/magento2/issues/5247
However this has been closed as it is a duplicate of: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/4159
This issue thread also details a workaround until the fix is merged into the next Magento release, which is to switch your webserver root to that of the Magento root path, not the /pub subdirectory.
I have verified this works on CE 2.1 (you need to clean cache after this change), however I would personally not recommend using this workaround on a production environment as is less secure.