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.

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