Magento Installation Guide

In the previous article, I started the series where a reader can read and understand about the Magento and developing the shopping site using this great platform. All articles will be based on Community edition which is totally FREE. The first article of this series is about “Installing Magento” on your local WAMP or any other server.


PRE Steps:

1) Install WAMP server on your local machine. You can download the latest WAMP5 using http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php link.

- Create database name called “magento” from phpMyAdmin of your WAMP server interface.

2) You need to create an account on Magento before you can download anything from Magento. You can create your account for FREE by registering at http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/member/register/.

3) Download latest Magento Community edition (1.4.1) on your computer by visiting http://www.magentocommerce.com/download and click “DOWNLOAD” button.

4) Extract the folder and open magento-1.4.1.1. Copy magento folder and put it in C:\wamp\www directory. Now you are ready to install Magento on your computer.

Install Magento:
1) Open “magento/app /Mage.php“ and copy following 2 lines at top part (after PHP tag start) set_time_limit(0);

ini_set(‘max_execution_time’, 0);
2) Open http://localhost/magento, and click check box of agreement. Click “Continue” to go to next step.

3) Keep the same settings in “Localization” step. However, you can update Default Currency or any other parameter as per your requirements. Click “Continue” to go to next step.

4) Put “magento” in Database Name field (make sure to create “magento” named database in your local server) and verify other details of Database Connection, click “Continue” and wait for sometime till Magento installs the tables in your database.

5) Verify that you have got 310 tables added in your database and then enter your Personal information and Login information. Don’t enter anything in Encryption Key. Once done, click “Continue” to reach final step.

6) That’s it. You have successfully installed Magento on your computer and you are ready to use it. Be sure to copy one key coming in bold in last step and put it safely for future purpose.

Here are the URLs to start with.
Front End: http://localhost/magento
Back End: http://localhost/magento/admin
Next article will be the overview of admin back end to give you the idea of the Magento power and also show your some of the front end features and pages.