Magento

I actually had the exact same problem the first day I spent learning magento.  The problem being that you are presented with the page and you have to select Default Category, then click Add New to do it correctly.  Instead of having it already selected and just clicking Add New.

Thanks moonlord!

so now I see the categori anchors and once i click on a categorie it shows the categorie menu/box on that page.... any clue as to how I can have it show on the front/homepage?

How do I get the category pages to show up?  Do I need to create them manually or does magento generate them automatically after I create the category?  My categories are showing on my menu bar, but when I click on the link, I do not get to that category page, I get a 404 Not Found error “The requested URL /magento-agr/designers was not found on this server.” I am just using the default htaccess file that came with magento, do I need to change any configuration settings, or perhaps there is a directory that should be writable and is not?

Nevermind, please disregard my question—I found the answer in Magento’s wonderful Wiki resource: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/general/installing_on_windows_with_xampp_and_wamp.

I am testing on my local WAMP setup, and simply needed to “Edit apache\conf\httpd.conf change line: #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so TO LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so” as the wiki resource suggested.

That solved my problem, and I am now seeing my category and product pages beautifully!

YEA, one less thing..

Well done moonlord for figuring that one out, that has saved me from having to do a re-install.

aFFi - 01 April 2008 12:37 PM

My products wont show up nomatter what I do now. Argh. Worked fine in 0.9. Anyone got any idea what I`ve missed out? The site says there is one product there as it finds the amount-range, it counts up one product in the category, etc. - but it wont show up on the page:
http://demo.elguideonweb.no/catalog/category/view/manufacturer/1/id/6/

@aFFi
Just to confirm, and go through a list of what to check:
1) Have you verified that the items are listed as in-stock
2) That the in-stock quantity is above the “Minimum Qty for Item’s Status to be Out of Stock”.
3) Is the “Stock Availability” set to “In Stock”?
4) What is the Product Type for the item “Simple Product”?
5) Is the Item Status “Enabled”?
6) What is the “Visibility” of the item set to?

I tried several things on my test server and I can’t seem to find any way to replicate what you are seeing. Do you think it could possibly be something in your template?

mjohnosperl:
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Simple product. Doesnt matter
5) Yes
6) Yes

The problem must be somewhere in the settings. I have copied all files from a fresh app\default-folder and skin\default-folder, with the same problem. It must definitely be a bug somewhere, maybe caused by a strange setting I have set.

The footer isnt displaying when the bug is there, so I guess there’s a div or two which malfunctions.

Think I’ll just give up and re-install Magento and try over. Did that on another host with the same template, and there it worked just fine.

Guess what, I did a completely fresh install (drop’ed the database and removed the whole magento-folder). Then I created a category, added a product, and POF - the same error!

This is the last thing that displays in the page, so there must be a bug/problem with the image-tag somehow. Anyone got a clue?

<td>
<p class="product-image">
<a href="http://demo.elguideonweb.no/handterminaler/datalogic-memor.html" title="Datalogic Memor">
<img src=”

Make sure you have php-gd

Yep, I installed php-gd and then it worked like a charm.

I have the same problem. I can’t see the the products menu bar. I added a new category under “Default Category”, and I have them both as anchors (the default and the new category), but can’t see anything.

After installing Magento I deleted the “Default Category” because I thought it was part of the DEMO, but after reading this board I put it back.

BUT, it is not working. Please HELP!!!!

http://www.bgalleon.com/store/

Darren Grant - 02 April 2008 03:22 AM

the default position should be that products/categories added will appear on the home page

How can I place products on my home page?

I fixed it!

1) You have to have a “Defaul Category” under “root”, then, under “Default Category” add the categories that you want to appear in the menu. Make sure they all are enabled and “anchors”.

2) Then, go to “System” -> “Manage Store”, and click on your main store. Mine is “Main Website Store” and make sure that “Defaut Category” is selected as your “Root Category”.

Manuel Padilla
http://www.booksgalleon.com

I am having a similar problem. However, when I create a new category I do not see any other option other than Root Catalog in the Parent Category.

@manuelpadilla Thank you so much --- I was also having this problem and you just saved me several hours of tearing my hair out. It’s hard to believe the default settings of Magento would require such a non-intuitive method of getting products to appear.

@spire: default Magento setup contains a store and store root category.

Please specify how we can improve this.