New Installation will not open with Category

[dbltoe]

new 158 from git
no mods installed
php8.0

Only one category with two products

Telling Zen Cart to open with the top category (option 0) results in nothing but the congratulations statement and it is NOT a partial blank page.

Since the category ID is 1, setting the main page to open with option 1 results in the same congratulations statement, not a blank page, and no category listed.

It's as if the centerColumn had a display:none somewhere which it doesn't.

Ideas?

Entering https://test.test_site.com/index.php...=index&cPath=1 in the address block goes to the correct page.

[dbltoe]

Found the right combo to show the category on the main page.

Categories - Always Show on Main Page was set to 0