Magento requires itself to be installed on a host name with at least one period ‘.’ in it, therefore installing to http://localhost doesn’t work. (Having installed to //localhost, I was unable to get it running even after the following changes. In the end I had to reinstall using the new host name which then worked fine.) quelle:Magento - Wiki - Installing on Windows with XAMPP and WAMP
während der installation auf xampp (unter “localhost") erhalte ich folgende fehlermeldung:
Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://)
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