{"id":268,"date":"2016-12-16T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexrusin.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:04:22","slug":"magento-2-errors-and-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexrusin.com\/magento-2-errors-and-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Magento 2 Errors and Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Cannot create a symlink for &#8221; error<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This error most likely will show up when you are running Magento 2 on Windows system (XAMPP, WAMP, etc).\u00a0 This error causes font icons to be replaced by non-resolvable symbols (problem in the admin area).\u00a0 Long story short, if Magento can\u2019t find a static asset file, it will automatically copy or symlink that file from that file\u2019s source module.\u00a0 In our case symlink does not work on Windows system. In order to solve this problem:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open up <code>app\/etc\/di.xml<\/code> and find the <code>virtualType name=\"developerMaterialization\"<\/code> section. In that section you&#8217;ll find an item <code>name=\"view_preprocessed\"<\/code> that needs to be modified or deleted. You can modify it by changing the contents from <code>Magento\\Framework\\App\\View\\Asset\\MaterializationStrategy\\Symlink<\/code> to <code>Magento\\Framework\\App\\View\\Asset\\MaterializationStrategy\\Copy<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Delete the files under pub\/static to get rid of any existing symlinks. 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