Magento

hello everybody,

am facing a problem while installing magento 1.4.2 on my local PC (PHP 5.3, Apache 2, Win 7)

after filling the configuration page and pressing continue, the page just keep loading with no messages.

note that the host value is localhost, base url is http://localhost/magento/. I have tried 127.0.0.1 but I had the same problem.

any help would be appreciated, am stuck in Magento installation days ago !!

I currently have the exact same problem…

Hi,

How much time did u wait? Because it takes around 3-4 minutes max sometimes to do all configuration at back-end while installing newer Magento versions. So if you are judging it in a min or 2 then please wait for 3-4 mins and then check.

Thanks

Im using Google Chrome and this is the error.
After about 30 seconds it displays this.

This web page has a redirect loop.

The web page at http://localhost/seasidepie/index.php/install/ has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web page later.
Learn more about this problem.
More information on this error
Below is the original error message

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

Could it be that it times out after so many seconds for some reason?

I was having the same problem when I was trying to login to the backend. Magento kept redirecting me to the login page without any warnings whatsoever.

I added a new entry on my local hosts file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.com

and I installed magento again using localhost.com/magento from the beggining. That solved my redirecting problem.

I have followed the instructions on the magento website for installation with WAMP but there are a couple of extentions I was unable to find.

3) Edit apache/conf/httpd.conf change line:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
to

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
(just remove the # )

DONE.

4) Edit apache/bin/php.ini and php/php.ini (same changes on both files - note, as of XAMPP 1.7.1, you will only have to change php/php.ini) change lines (the first change is not necessary on xampp):

;extension=php_mcrypt.dll
to

extension=php_mcrypt.dll
and changes lines:

COULD NOT FIND THIS.

;extension=php_curl.dll
to

extension=php_curl.dll
(just remove the ; )

DONE.

4a) On WAMP you must also change the following line in apache2/bin/php.ini and php/php.ini changes lines:

;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
to

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
(just remove the ; )

DONE.

In addition to php_pdo_mysql.dll, you may also need to make sure you are loading:

extension=php_pdo.dll

COULD NOT FIND THIS.

Any help would be much appreciated…

yes indeed !! adding 127.0.0.1 localhost.com to the hosts file and using localhost.com/magento in browsing sealed the deal !!

thank you very much for the help