Magento Installation Requirement

Posted by admin on November 6, 2008 under Guide |

Magento is a fantastic open source ecommerce shopping cart. However, the software will require a few important modules to be install on your web hosting provider’s server in order to get it working properly.

Requirement Check:

Upload this Script to check whether your server support magento:

http://www.magentocommerce.com/_media/magento-check.zip

Most webhosts should be running apache, php5,mysql 5 by now. However, do check that PHP include the specific extensions like PDO_MySQL while mySQL support innoDB engine.

Here are the basic requirement:

Web server: Apache 1.x, 2.x

PHP5.2.x and above

* Required extensions:
o PDO_MySQL
o simplexml
o mcrypt
o hash
o GD
o DOM
o iconv
o SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used)

- Safe_mode off

- Memory_limit 32M or more

MySQL:

• 4.1.20 or newer
• InnoDB storage engine

Crontab

• Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5

Mod_rewrite enabled

• To make your shopping cart search engine friendly

Currently, i had installed a copy of magento on my account hosted with mxhub.com on a cpanel server. My cart had been working well so far.