Thanks for listing us guys We’ve been really pleased with Magento and really, really love the community here, so always happy to help. By the way, what would you recommend for doing screencasts, as this sounds like a much better idea for installation tutorials and other examples.
Bitnami offers a number of free xampp stacks which can be used to install Magento. They include up-to-date versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP and run on Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris
Thanks Nick. Just used your guide and it went without a problem. I was up and running in 34-40 minutes. I am so thankful: you saved me hours. Also left a comment in the comments of your page.
I hope Roy is reading this and will take you up on your suggestion at step 8 in your guide.
Thanks Nick. Just used your guide and it went without a problem. I was up and running in 34-40 minutes. I am so thankful: you saved me hours. Also left a comment in the comments of your page.
I hope Roy is reading this and will take you up on your suggestion at step 8 in your guide.
I’m glad it worked out for you. If you run into any problems please feel free to PM me, or post a comment on the blog.
Yes you can. Assuming that you’re on Dreamhost, have shell access, and both domains/subdomains are setup under the same user, you could simply do the following:
1) Open Putty and connect to your server.
2) Run:
This also assumes that none of your MySQL configuration will change.
You may get some ‘permission denied’ errors on some of the /var/cache/mage--* folders. I believe this is because when you run the ./pear commands to update Magento (original install), it downloads those files as the Dreamhost Apache user (dhapache) and the permissions are set to 600 on them. I think this could possibly be overcome by running the ./pear command with setuid in front of it, for example:
setuid [dreamhost_username] ./pear install mage-core/Mage_Pear_Helpers mage-core/Lib_ZF mage-core/Lib_Varien
Haven’t tested it though.
Thank you. OK, that’s good news. I am new to the command line so your assumptions are correct but if I use
cp -r magento.domain.com
doesn’t it only do half the work: tell the server I want to copy but how does it know where to?
You test the method you mentioned and you had no “permissions denied” errors during the process (from magento.webinade.com to test2.webinade.com)?
Also, I wonder if anyone noticed the Magento store loads slowly. On a blank browser window, when a URL is typed up and enter pressed, a site like http://www.engadget.com loads right away. With the same internet connection and also with a blank page, my Magento demo store takes 5-6 times as long: it usually gets stuck at the beginning of the URL, it seems once it’s resolved, then the page loads fairly quickly. I don’t know how to pock around this. Would appreciate any ideas.
On a separate note, I sent you a PM to exchange contact info.
Hi guys,
I am just attempting to install Magento on my playground site (http://www.kelcode.co.uk) and appear to have run into a small issue. I was just in the process of installing and configuring the system (just entered the db details) and now it comes up with a print out of the “Mage_Eav_Exception Object” with some additional debug info at the bottom, I have had a look thorugh the files to see if I can spot what the issue is but without studying it alo further I afraid I am lost lol.
Any recommendations for fixing this would be much appreciated. Magento comes highly recommended by a collegue of mine and I really wanted to try it.
It would be beneficial to have a Linux virtual machine created with Magento pre-installed and working. I spend a couple of hours setting up the OS environment and installing PHP and Magento. For those who just wanting to try out Magento, a VM would seem to be the ideal test platform.
Thank you. OK, that’s good news. I am new to the command line so your assumptions are correct but if I use
cp -r magento.domain.com
doesn’t it only do half the work: tell the server I want to copy but how does it know where to?
You test the method you mentioned and you had no “permissions denied” errors during the process (from magento.webinade.com to test2.webinade.com)?
Also, I wonder if anyone noticed the Magento store loads slowly. On a blank browser window, when a URL is typed up and enter pressed, a site like http://www.engadget.com loads right away. With the same internet connection and also with a blank page, my Magento demo store takes 5-6 times as long: it usually gets stuck at the beginning of the URL, it seems once it’s resolved, then the page loads fairly quickly. I don’t know how to pock around this. Would appreciate any ideas.
On a separate note, I sent you a PM to exchange contact info.
Yes… for some reason my post wasn’t showing up correctly - the asterisk. I added a backslash in front of it, and now it shows the full commands to run. Remove the backslash though - \
We’ve been really pleased with Magento and really, really love the community here, so always happy to help. By the way, what would you recommend for doing screencasts, as this sounds like a much better idea for installation tutorials and other examples.
