Magento

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Due to the fact that the Ubuntu version I chose was 64-bit, the following two steps (terminal commands) were necessary. If you are using a 32-bit version, you can also execute them. They are probably needed by xampp.

On a terminal execute:

 sudo apt-get update'  
 sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Download xampp-linux-1.6.7.tar.gz from apache friends and save it to a directory of your choice. On a terminal execute:

 sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.7.tar.gz -C /opt

This will install XAMPP on /opt

To start XAMPP simply call this command:

/opt/lampp/lampp start

You should now see something like this on your screen:

Starting XAMPP 1.6.7...

LAMPP: Starting Apache...

LAMPP: Starting MySQL...

LAMPP started.

If you now open a browser, and insert this address

http://localhost

you should see a page resembling the configuration page of XAMPP. Make sure that when you check the status, the following are reported

MySQL database                     ACTIVATED         
PHP                                ACTIVATED         
Perl                               ACTIVATED         
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)     ACTIVATED         
Server Side Includes (SSI)         ACTIVATED         

open the XAMPP configuration page

http://localhost

Navigate to myphpadmin and create a new database. Give it the name: magentotestdb

The user in this is the default: root

No password is required.

At first we need to decide the directory Magento needs to sit in. In order to be able to access this site with XAMPP, Magento needs to be installed inside /opt/lampp/htdocs/ So we can create a directory inside htdocs called magentosite (Its better to perform the following as a superuser ‘su’ from the terminal. That way there will be no issues of permissions to write directories at this level). So open up a terminal and type:

 
su
cd /opt/lampp/htdocs
mkdir magentosite
cd magentosite

At this point we’re ready to download Magento (& the sample database) At the same terminal type

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.1.6/magento-1.1.6.tar.gz
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.1.2/magento-sample-data-1.1.2.tar.gz

Give your computer the time needed to download each package.

At the same terminal type:

tar -zxvf magento-1.1.6.tar.gz 
tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.1.2.tar.gz

On the same terminal as before, execute the following commands

mv magento-sample-data-1.1.2/media/* magento/media/
mv magento-sample-data-1.1.2/magento_sample_data_for_1.1.2.sql magento/data.sql
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .

chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc
chmod -R o+w media

By doing this, we make mysql accessible from any path. To do this, edit the file /etc/environment and add /opt/lampp/bin

Something like this:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/lampp/bin"

ADD TO ENVIRONMENT PATH THE LOCATION OF mysql » /opt/lampp/bin Edit /etc/environment file and add it

mysql -u root magentotestdb < data.sql

Normally we’d have to run the magento script to setup all environment variables

./pear mage-setup .
./pear install -f magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable

The script runs fine until it needs to resolve the host names. For details please see thread

rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/*
rm -rf magento/ magento-sample-data-1.1.2/
rm -rf magento-1.1.6.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.1.2.tar.gz data.sql

 find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} ;

We’re done! Navigate to

HTTP://localhost/magentosite

During the installation procedure, choose local host as address of host and give the database name used above.

As mentioned above, all features work, except the magento connect. Please help improve this article.