I successfully performed all installations steps until configuration Magento.
Then I entered database name and user password and clicked Continue button, waited for awhile and receive the following error in FF:
The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
If I delete C:\wamp\www\Magento130\app\etc\local.xml, then I can again reproduce the above behavior and receive the same error.
I looked inside local.xml file and found that the following values for <date> and <key> tags in the beginning, which seems to me corrupt:
update: i turned off php-safe-mode in my control panel and it installed perfectly. (still, this is the most difficult software i’ve ever installed. take a page from WordPress...2 minutes and you are done!)
my site is hosted on a Plesk server...there is probably a way to turn it off in C-Panel or whatever site control panel you have. contact your site host for details.
And then? I have this same issue. Safe mode is off in php.ini. I’m using the latest wamp and version 1.4.0.1 magento. can someone post a video on youtube? download and install wamp, download and install magento. let’s see it.
That didn’t help, but I did manage to get it working. I’m using Wamp 2.0i on Vista with Firefox 3.5.8 with php 5.3.0, mysql 5.1.36
I changed httpd.conf to allow rewrites (uncomment load rewrites_module_modules something like that, it’s in the threads below). another important step to avoid timeout is changing php.ini to allow unlimited execution time and input time (again, check threads below for more details). the other major step is how you create your database in mysql before the installation. you need to allow global access and basically, follow the steps in the thread posts below. finally, after installation, to login to the admin section, I had to change localhost to 127.0.0.1 in the address bar before being able to login. and now, the magic posts and threads that got me this far…
Honestly, it shouldn’t be this difficult to install. wtf? if this is the best open source ecommerce package out, I’d hate to see the worst. I almost threw my laptop out the window trying to get this thing to work. thanks to jvf up there for the detailed instructions. Hey magento team, how about some documentation with screen shots or maybe a video showing all the steps with explanations along the way? that would be nice. but then people would know how to use it and we can’t have that now can we? If I can create my own themes and get them to work on here, I’ll make a video showing all the steps to get this thing to work, from downloading wamp and magento to getting it up and running, cause, you know, that might be helpful.
I’d have to say, magento isn’t for everybody. good luck trying to use it. I hope this post actually helps some other people with these problems.
I just solved the same problem installing locally with wamp -
“The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.”
I needed to:
- delete C:\wamp\www\Magento\app\etc\local.xml
- delete the database and reimport the sample data sql file (so I had a clean DB)
- change the wamp php.ini file to allow for a much longer execution time - in all it was processing for about 6 minutes between the configuration and admin screens.
Done!
Everything was a piece of cake until I hit this snag - it took about 4 hours for me to figure this out.
I have now read a number of threads with people with this same issue. I dont quote understand why Magento have not simply solved this issue given some of the threads I have read are 3 years old!!!
There have been a number of suggestions but nothing that seems to be definitive other than that the data is missing from the local.xml file. The question is how do we fix this.
In this thread (as well as many many more) we have had the chestnut of make sure you have the right permissions on your files and directories. Check and check and check - already checked this and uninstalled and reinstalled 8 times. And double checked just to make sure.
I have also tried to reinstall using the details using the cheat sheet to ensure that a new install is done and that the previous try does not impact on the new attempt and I always hit the same issue.
if anyone has some advance on what might be the issue (ie beyond what is outlined already) that would be great as I am losing hair rapidly and it should not be this hard!
WORD OF WARNING THIS SOLUTION IS ONLY FOR A NEW INSTALL - DO NOT USE IF UPGRADING!
Having lost a significant amount of hair and having now had to call ashley and martin I have finally got this installed. What a maraton and I must say the installation instructions are wrong!
As this was my first install I thought I would download and install magento with the sampe data base - big mistake and this is the cause of EVERYTHING!
Heres the issue. If you read this thread, you will see that a number of people have been having issues with upgrading magento. SimpleHelix provides a solution to comment out the code in the upgrade scripts that are tyring to create tables and causing errors.
Based on the installation instructions for using a sample data base and also the cheat instructions, magento get you to create the database first. However, by doing this, you are basically in the same position as those people trying to upgrade.
However, as I am doing a brand new install I don\’t need to worry about data as I have none other than the sampe database. There I deleted the database and ran the install script and \"bobs your uncle\” the problem dissapears and I have my magento installed.
I hope this solution helps a few and that you all lose less hair than I did.
