How to install Magento on Wamp Server (Windows XP) with sample data.
Hello techies,
I was trying to install Magento on my local server using WAMP. Well, Magento is an award winning open source ecommerce application. This will help a newbie on installing Magento on your system using WAMP.
Here is it how?
1. Download and install WampServer 2.0f which contains Apache Version: 2.2.11, PHP Version: 5.2.8, MySQL Version: 5.1.30, phpmyadmin 3.1.1.
[Latest versions of WampServer contain PHP 5.3. But Magento doesn’t work with PHP 5.3. If you want to use a latest version (e.g.: WampServer 2.0i), then you must download & install PHP 5.2.8 add-on to the WampServer2.0i and load it via WampServer -> PHP -> Version -> 5.2.8]
2. Download magento-1.4.1.1.zip and magento-sample-data-1.2.0.zip.
3. Extract magento-1.4.1.1.zip. Copy and paste Magento (or folder name) folder in to www directory of the WampServer.
4. Make a database for Magento demo store at your WampServers phpmyadmin interface as shown below. Write down the database name, user name, and password as you will need these later.
a) Create New Database.
Phpmyadmin -> Create new database – Database name –> Create.
b) Add New User and User Password.
Server: localhost -> Privileges-> Add a new User -> Select appropriate drop downs as shown below; put your username & password -> Check all privileges -> GO.
c) Add User to Database.
Server: localhost -> Privileges -> Select username -> Edit privileges
Database specific privileges -> Select Database name from drop down
The page will refresh-> Check all privileges -> Go.
5. Extract your Sample Data package magento-sample-data-1.2.0.zip. You will get a SQL file and a “media” folder.
6. In the leftmost column of your Phpmyadmin click on the database name that you created, now click on Import in the central menu bar at your database and select that SQL file, which came in unpack of Sample Data package. Then click Go. A list of your new tables will appear below your database name in the left-hand column. Now you can close phpMyAdmin.
7. Go back to the sample data folder. Copy catalog folder inside the ‘media’ folder to the Magento ‘media’ folder on the www directory.
8. Load the php extensions mcrypt.dll and curl.dll.
WampServer -> PHP -> PHP extensions -> Click on php_curl & php_mcrypt.
In addition to this, you may also need to make sure you are loading: php_pdo, php_pdo_mysql.
9. Now enter http://localhost/magento(or folder name)/ on your browser for installation Step-by-Step Wizard. Just proceed as explain below.
a. First step, Click on the check box “I agree to the above terms and conditions” and click on the Continue button.
b. In Second step, leave localization to its default values and Click on Continue.
c. In the Third step, enter the database name, database user name, database user password, & check-Skip Base URL Validation before the Next Step and click on Continue. (This step will take 1 minute or more, since that step stores the tables in the database).
d. In Fourth step enter your personal information and login information (admin name & password for dashboard) and don’t forget to write down admin password. (Leave encryption key). Click on Continue.
e. In the Final step, please make a note of your encryption key and make sure you keep it in a safe place. (Magento uses it to encrypt passwords, credit cards and more).
10. Installation completed. Now you can open Frontend (http://localhost/magento (or folder name)/) and Backend (http://localhost/magento (or folder name)/index.php/admin/dashboard) on your browser.
11. If you can’t Log in to Admin Panel after installation, that’s a cookie problem. The solution for this problem is to modify the core Magento code as explain below.
Copy the Varien.php file from:
C:\wamp\www\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php and
Paste in to the C:\wamp\www\magento\app\code\local\Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\Varien.php (create folders Mage\Core\Model\Session\Abstract\). Open the same file and go to line 96 or locate the code similar below:
Replace the code found in line 96 with this one.
The purpose of this code change is to disable the Magentos domain checking only if it is accessed via localhost and run as usual if it is being accessed through a valid domain.
Now you can Login to Admin Panel http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin/ with your admin username and password.
12. If you browse through the Magento demo store; store doesn’t show any products. To resolve this problem Log in to Admin Panel go to System—>Index Management. Select fields in Status — ‘REINDEX REQUIRED’, then choose ‘Reindex Data’ from drop down and click Submit.
13. If you want to change Header, navigate through Admin Panel > System > configuration > design > header > Welcome Text > Change default welcome message, Save.
To change footer; find the page footer file from magento\var\cache\ folder, change footer and save it.
All the best!!!
Oh this is working.
Thanks for your article.
hei there, ive done the process but saddly the whole products ecc wont appear even after the reindex data process. any guess?
thx in advance for any support
A good “current” description of how to quickly set up on a local Windows server. This article saved alot of time. Thanks!
Hi Jamall cross check steps 6 & 7. (Step 6 will take some time, since that step creates the tables)…
Robin, you are my hero… Spent days and days and days trying to set this up. You were the only one I found mentioning the PHP 5.2.8 add on, which was the key to a successfull installation. Now I only need to bounce my head for a while to get WAMP and Magento work toguether to send emails (another nightmare).
I´ll pass on the link to ur post. You might save too many headaches to docens of people.
A million thanx buddy
This worked in a single go!!Unbeleivable..
Robin, I’m in Brazil, and many thanks for your contribution, it was very important and came at a crucial moment. Because I was trying to install magento on localhost for 7 days without success and nearly gave up. The tips are absolutely perfect. Peace, health and full success for you and your family.
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You’re my Hero!!! Saludos desde México
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Hi there,
excellent explanation on how to install. took me ages to work it out, until I found this help.
thanks mate!
Thanks man!
I have been trying to setup magento on my local machine for past several days but not successful. Your blog post came to my rescue and now it all working fine – Thank a lot. going to tweet your article!
You are great…i have 2weeks that i tried to install magento….
Hi
Thanks a lot. I felt this is as the best explanation for installing majento. Explained each and every step clearly. Thanks again and one thing I would like to add to step 9. That is in the base url only when I gave ‘http://127.0.0.1/majento‘ instead of default ‘http://localhost/majento‘ I could pass that stage.
On the navigation bar when we click on any last node category then it will says “There are no products matching the selection”.
Please tell why the products are not showing while there are products added in database?
Also please tell from where the home page products(Best Selling Product) are coming?
Anybody can help me out here
thanks for the steps which helps me lot following the installation of magento, but when it comes to magento installtion which you have specified at step 9, i am getting an error Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://) but i left the default value which is http://localhost/magento/, i am not able to move to next step, anybody can help me here what is the actual error and how i should overcome it, thanks
Hey there was an error “Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://)” at step 9c.
Solution:
Follow this link ” http://futureplanmedia.com/how-to-install-magento-on-localhost-without-url-validation-error/ “.
Thank you for the post. The reindex worked great! In this time of learning Magento, oh what a time, it is nice to find nuggets of useful information from people who care enough to share.
Thanks!
It was really helpful! Thanks a bunch
step 5. Extract your Sample Data package magento-sample-data-1.2.0.zip. You will get a SQL file and a “media” folder.
How do u do this? Where do u extract your sample data package magento-sample-data-1.2.0.zip?
even after following step 11 i couldn’t login to magento. it gives the following error
There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: 1488078831
After following step 11 i still can’t login to magento.
I’m getting following error
There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: 573339882
i’m using WampServer2.2a-x32 and megento 1.6.1.0
Dear Robin,
you saved my brain cells my life my time.
I really appreciate your work.
Thank you!
Greetings from Hungary!