Magento install on XP Pro – Ubuntu, WAMP or XAMPP ?
Aug0
I have a big templating job on with Magento, a leading LAMP Ecommerce platform. After suffering a bit on the install I think I’d better make a few notes.
Magento on Ubuntu 8.04 ?
I normally use an Ubuntu Virtual machine for my development. But as it was running 8.04 and therefore an older version of Mysql I started casting around for a better interim solution. I do not want to touch my Ubuntu install (in case I ruin my Cooreea development setup) for now.
Magento on XAMPP 1.7.2 ?
Hmmm…after I remembered that Skype conflicts with XAMPP on Port 80 (well killing Skype worked) XAMPP worked – but Magento did not as it does nto work with PHP 5.3 – so I had a quick look to see how easy it was to revert to 5.2 on XAMPP – not that easy by the looks. I remembered that WAMP had a good feature where you could upload different PHP versions through the control panel so…
Magento on WAMP 2.0 ?
Hmmm ver 2 … well WAMP is certainly more featured than XAMPP, I love the PHP version and extensions settings. And… it WORKED… Magento that is, so far apart from having to remove some cache because I am accessing through a different host under PHP 5.2.9 we have progress..
Notes:
- It is worth setting up a virtual host thingy as without a ‘.’ in the url (i.e http://localhost/magento) the cookies do not work, although they do in Opera … strange…so try http://localhost.magento/magento/ for example
- The DB settings are in app/etc/local.xml
Useful links:
- WAMP Virtual Hosts – http://www.dennisplucinik.com/blog/2007/08/16/setting-up-multiple-virtual-hosts-in-wamp/
- XAMPP – http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
- WAMP – http://www.wampserver.com/en/
- Magento – http://www.magentocommerce.com/
- Transferring Magento between hosts
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