PreExistingConfigException During First-Time Site Installation

Hi Steve, I would like to follow along with you as I haven't tested our own installation instructions in a few months.

Firstly, I would recommend installing wxt 5.2.3 instead of wxt 5.2.2

Secondly, which installation instructions are you following?

Normally I'd suggest following these instructions:

https://drupalwxt.github.io/docs/general/installation/

or

https://github.com/drupalwxt/wxt-project

From there, I can also guide you on creating a subtheme, there's some readme instructons for that in the wxt_bootstrap theme folder that comes out of the installation.

To narrow down our focus, is this more of an Azure issue or a general first time installation issue?

Have you tested this procedure locally? Normally before deploying to Azure, you should test this in a local environment. You'd normally want to set up a git repository to store your project and then use that in a deployment pipeline at some point for a cloud service, azure or aws for example.

For a cloud service you'll need a filesystem mapping for the assets so that Drupal can write files to it such as aggregated css and aggregated js, twig cache and store images/documents.

What docker images are you using and what instructions are you following for docker?

I tested this issue myself and I didn't see that issue, I agree with @joseph.olstad , this looks like an Azure issue to me, could you provide the logs, please?

I have not run into this issue installing WxT on Azure. The error message indicates that the config bootstrap.settings is already in active configuration. Seems like you have existing entries in the database, is it possible a previous install attempt was made? I would suggest emptying the database and start again, ensuring the database is completely empty. You could also check the value for the bootstrap.settings config during the install process to see when it gets set.

Thank you all for the quick replies and the very valuable tips on what to look at.
as you suggest Joseph I'll update to version 5.2.3
To deploy we are using DevOps with the artifacts, repo & pipeline:
az artifacts universal download/publish --organization https://dev.azure.com/ourcorp --project="Drupal_Corp_Websites" --scope project --feed DrupalFeed --name drupalwxt --version 5.2.3 --description "Drupal WXT" --path C:\Temp\Drupal
then we run the pipeline to update the php image on the docker
then another pipeline run to upload the image from the docker to the container registry and deploy to Web App in Azure.

We have been using Microsoft services to help us set/prepare our Azure environment Prior the deployment.

The very first deployment the database services was create from scratch with no database yet created in it.
When i ran the setup at #3 Set Up the database, I give a unique name to the database and only during this next and install site everything is installing/completed at 100%.
i get a green status message saying
"Thanks for installing Block Class. Now in the block configuration
you will see a field to add your classes....

Nothing to check.

No configuration objects have been updated."

"The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.

Drupal\Core\Config\PreExistingConfigException: Configuration
objects (bootstrap.settings) provided by bootstrap already exist in
active configuration in
Drupal\Core\Config\PreExistingConfigException :: create() (line 65
of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Config/PreExistingConfigException.php).

Drupal\Core\Config\PreExistingConfigException :: create('bootstrap'
Array) (Line: 538)
Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigInstaller-
>checkConfigurationToInstall('theme', 'bootstrap') (Line: 132)
Drupal\Core\ProxyClass\Config\ConfigInstaller-
>checkConfigurationToInstall('theme', 'bootstrap') (Line: 225)
Drupal\Core\Extension\ThemeInstaller->install(Array) (Line:
1641)
install_profile_themes(Array) (Line: 707)
install_run_task(Array, Array) (Line: 578)
install_run_tasks(Array, NULL) (Line: 121)
install_drupal(Object) (Line: 48)"

If i refresh the page it will take me directly from choose language to Configure site.

The Microsoft tech have his lab and couldn't replicate my issue either. He suggested that I reach out here for additional help.

Here I am.

I'll revisit the links with instructions that Joseph has posted as i install version 5.2.3

Many thanks for your help & insights all, I truly appreciate this.

path C:\Temp\Drupal
It appears you're installing Drupal using Windows. I cannot support windows as I do not have this operating system available.

Perhaps consider using the wxt docker scaffold instead and deploy this using a Linux target host instead.

From the error message in #7, this appears to be a config issue, not environment related. The PreExistingConfigException during a first-time site installation is an unusual issue, especially on a new Drupal instance with an empty database. The error indicates that some configuration objects already exist in the active configuration, even though the database should be clean.

I am closing this as can't reproduce. If the problem still persists, please re-open and provide details. Thanks!