Posted by admin on December 1, 2008 under Guide | 
Do you want to get more traffic for your store? If yes, make sure your magento shopping store is search engine friendly! To do this, make sure your web hosting provider’s server had Mod_Rewrite enabled. For my case, my web hosting provider’s server had Mod_Rewrite enabled which mean my store is ready to be index by major searcn engines companies anytime soon.
In this post, we will do a simple Mod_Rewrite test to check whether it is enabled on your web hosting provider’s server.
What is the advantage of having a search engine friendly store?
Major search engine companies like Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others can index all your products pages more easily. When a visitor search on these search engine, your magento store had a higher chance of showing up during the search result. Imagine 1/4 of the search engine users found your store? You will be rich! 
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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.
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Posted by admin on 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:
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Posted by admin on October 31, 2008 under Guide |
First of all, make sure your web hosting provider meet the requirement before you install magento.
Reasons why you should use SSH access.
1. You can skip the ‘middle man’(FTP / file manager) and download all the files directly to your account.
2. FASTER & more convenient
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Before we start…
This guide works for root level or in subdirectory
Make sure you are inside “public_html” or in your “subdirectory”, depend where you want install magento to.
Let’s get the ball rolling…!
Download the installation files & sample data .
( You can always check for newest release from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister )
//Download installation files
# wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.1.8/magento-1.1.8.tar.gz
//Download the sample data
# wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.1.2/magento-sample-data-1.1.2.tar.gz
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