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Part 2: Magento Installation
This article is most helpful for users who have installed Magento before and just need a reminder of the
major steps in the process.

Magento System Requirements

Magento must be run on a Unix-based web server, with PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 4.1.20+. These instructions
assume you have first set up a web server with a standard LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP).

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For evaluation and development purposes, Magento can be run locally on a PC or Mac using a local LAMP
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environments, however. Please see the links at the bottom of this document for additional considerations
when installing to your localhost.
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Method 1 (easier, highly recommended for those who’ve just entered Magento world)

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Method 2 (normal): Install Magento steps by steps

These instructions document the default installation for Magento. At the end, Magento will be installed Subscribe 259 1,409
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without sample data to a directory called magento on your web server. There are four main steps covered
here:

Step 1 - Download Magento

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Step 3 - Create your store database Magento Extensions
Step 4 - Run the web-based Setup Wizard Magento Themes
All done!
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Method 1: Download Magento to your computer and FTP it up to your server
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2. On your computer, extract Magento from the downloaded archive. A folder
named magentocontaining all of the Magento files will be created
3. Using an FTP client, upload the extracted magento folder and all its contents to the web root on your
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Method 2: Download Magento directly to your server (requires SSH access)

If you have SSH access to your server, using wget to download the archive directly to your server is much
faster and simpler than Method 1. Subscribe
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2. Get the full release archive using the wget command below
3. On your server, extract Magento from the downloaded archive. A directory named magentocontaining Enter your e­mail address
all of the Magento files will be created under public_html

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cd publc_html wgethttp://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.4.1.0/magento-
1.4.1.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-1.4.1.0.tar.gz

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Step 2—Set file permissions for the Setup Wizard

On your web server, make the directories that the Setup Wizard needs writeable by the web
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Files & directories that must be writeable are: September 17, 2014

- file: magento/var/.htaccess
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- directory: magento/app/etc
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- directory: magento/var
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- all the directories under: magento/media
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Step 3—Create your store database

1. Create an empty MySQL database for your store

This step varies by hosting provider and is out of the scope of this document. Consult your System
Administrator or your web host’s support/documentation for instructions on how to do this.
PHPmyAdmin or the MySQL command line are the most commonly used tools/methods for creating
and managing a MySQL database
2. Create a database user with full privileges to the database
3. Make note of the database name (dbname), db user (dbuser), db user password (dbpassword)
4. If you want to load sample data, you must do it now, before you run the setup Wizard in the next step

Step 4—Run the web-based Setup Wizard

1. Using a browser, run the Setup Wizard

Go to your website by domain or IP address
(http://www.yourDomain.com/magento or http://yourIP.0.0.1/magento) and the Setup Wizard will run
automatically
2. In the Setup Wizard, finish configuring your Magento installation

a. License Agreement – Read and accept the terms and conditions

b. Localization (settings can be changed later via the Admin Panel)
Locale – default country $ language
Time zone – default time zone
Default currency

c. Configuration

Database

Host
-localhost

works for most basic installations

Database name
-dbname

form when you created the database

User name
-dbuser

from when you created the database

User Password
-dbpass

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form when you created the database

Web access options (will be pre-filled based on your installation, settings can be changed later via the
Admin Panel)

Base URL—for default installation into a magento directory, base URL should
be http://www.yourDomain.com/magento or http://www.yourIP.com/magento. (If you’re installing
Magento locally on PC or Mac, this should be 127.0.0.1/magento–you cannot put “localhost” here
unless you’ve previously set it up in your local hosts file.)
Admin path—default is “admin” (will be appended to base URL to reach Admin Panel)
Skip Base URL Validations Before the Next Step
Use Web Server (Apache) Rewrites
Use Secure URLs

Session Storage Options—Choose file system or database. Most installations should use “file system”
because it’s faster and doesn’t cause the database to grow. But if your site will run on multiple servers,
you should select “database” so that a user’s session data is available regardless of which server his/her
request is served from.

Admin account

Name & contact info for 1st Admin user

Login info for 1st admin user (username & password)
Encryption key—Database encryption key. If you do not provide one, Magento will automatically
generate one. It will be displayed to you and saved in the app/etc/local.xml file.

Magento stores this set up information in the file app/etc/local.xml. If you’d like to run through the Setup
Wizard again you do not have to download all the Magento files again. Just delete the local.xml file and
any files and directories in the var/ directory and go back to http://www.yourDomain.com/magento with
your browser. The Setup Wizard will run automatically again. (Why does this work? The Setup Wizard
writes the values you provide during the setup process to the local.xml file and it will not run if it finds
a local.xml file already. The var folder contains cached session information from the frontend and will
have cached any previous settings, so deleting these files will prevent the incorrect cached content from
being used.)

Success!

After you finish the set up wizard, you will be redirected to the Magento storefront. You can access the
Admin Panel and start adding categories and products.

Your frontend store will have the URL http://www.yourDomain.com/magento

Your Admin Panel will have the URL http://www.yourDomain.com/magento/admin
(Log in using the username and password you created in the last step of the Setup Wizard)

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9 comments
baudoin
April 20, 2015 at 1:43 pm

Hey man. After configuring Magento, I just can’t login to my backend. I’ve changed the permission and
everything. Tried a couple of times…I’m using mamp etc.
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baudoin
April 20, 2015 at 1:48 pm

Never mind. Browser issue. Sorry ^^

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vinod kumar
January 17, 2015 at 6:16 am

PLz Share More…

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Subrata
November 13, 2014 at 9:10 am

Hi!, I’m new to Magento but keen to learn and apply it…I have gone through some tutorials but i’m still
confused where to keep the .css, .html or js files…

Please help…
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Divakar
October 10, 2014 at 5:24 am

I need Complete Magento Installation procedure,

As well Pdf tutorial of Complete Magento Software
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Brian Wilson
October 10, 2014 at 7:28 am

Hi Divakar, you may take a look at the tutorials below:

- Step by Steps Magento Community instalaltion

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- Magento Community video installation guide
Good luck!
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Suhail
July 4, 2014 at 7:19 am

My magento installation is at domain.gostorego.com.I want to edit some files on the server.how can i do
that?
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Brian Wilson
October 10, 2014 at 7:28 am

You can connect to your site via SSH or FTP to edit files on your server
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verdo
October 20, 2013 at 11:21 pm

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