Guide : How to setup Magento ecommerce on Cpanel Server without SSH access(Fast way)

Posted by admin on November 6, 2008 under Guide |

First of all, make sure your web hosting provider meet the requirement before you install magento.

Two reasons why you should use this guide:

1. Your account do not come with SSH access and upload files via FTP is taking so long( it took me > 20minutes just to upload entire magento files via FTP)

2. OR you do not know how to install magento using SSH.

This guide is for you.

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Here is a quick way to upload all magento files using cpanel file manager:

( You can always check for newest release from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister )

Upload magento

1. Upload your magento-x.x.x.zip file to public_html/ via FTP. This gonna take sometime since the zip file alone is about 15mb big.

2. Upload finish.

Login to Cpanel > File manager

3. Navigate to the directory where you have just upload the zip file.

4. Right click the zip file and choose “Extract” . It should extract a “magento” folder.

5. Enter into “magento” folder , “Select all” . Right click on one of the selected file. Choose “move”

Move all files outside of “magento” folder.

6. Delete “magento” folder and the zip file.

Start installation

1. Create a mysql database & mysql user.

2. Import the sample data to your mysql database. (You can do so at Cpanel > mysql > phpmyadmin)

(You can get the .sql sample data from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister )

3. Start the installation wizard

www.yourdomain.com/install.php

Note: My site is hosted on a suexec/suphp environment. Therefore, i do not have chmod 777 to make certain directories writable. For other who are no on suexec/suphp ennvironment, you may require to make the file magento/var/.htaccess, the directories magento/app/etc, magento/var, and all the directories under magento/media are writable by the web server.

If you have problem with your web host, check out our list of recommended magento web hosting providers at http://www.mtomto.com/magento-hosting-providers/