Hi All,
This is my first tutorial about magento e-commerce development platform. This is just a compilation of tutorials/guide that I came across while learning about this great platform. Also I have tried to add my own flavor to this topic.
I hope to learn some more from you guys and contribute my $0.02 cents on this series.
Environment Setup
- Software Installation (For Windows development environment)
- Magento Installation
Software Installation (For Windows development environment)
- Download Notepad++ and install – you may chose any editor you like
- Download Wamp and install
- ??? Don’t want to do regular chores of creating database and installing the magento. Then download and install Selenium IDE (firefox plugin for web application testing)
Magento Installation
- Enable php_curl extension, un-comment(removing #) following line in php.ini extension=php_curl.dll
- Enable re-write module in httpd.conf in apache
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so - Download Magento, unzip and copy it inside the “www” directory in wamp installtion directory.
- If you are lazy like myself, open up the Selenium IDE from “Tools | Selenium IDE” in firefox.
- Open up the “dbsetup.txt” in the Selenium IDE. Move the slide to “slow” in Selenium IDE and press green triangle button to run the script.
Note: It will create a database “magento” with usernam/password both as “magento” - For magento installation, open and run “Magento Installation.txt” in selenium IDE.OR
- You can open Selenium IDE, press red circle button and record your installation process and default values, which you can play later.
Trouble shoot magento installation.
- “Unable to login admin” – uncomment following lines in app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php//’domain’ => $cookie->getConfigDomain(),
//’secure’ => $cookie->isSecure(),
//’httponly’ => $cookie->getHttponly()
Hope the information was quite helpful.
Time to sign-off. Keep on tuning for some more insight on magento theme development.
Send me the feedback/questions if any.