Magento Installation on Ubuntu with XAMPP



1. Installing & Setting up XAMPP



Download latest xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz version from apache friends and save it to a directory of your choice. On a  terminal execute:     

     sudo tar -xzvf xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt


Follow the Steps 3 and 4 apache friends link.



2. Installing Magento

Now Where to set up magento folder. Download mangento and setup under /opt/lampp/htdocs. 
follow below given few lines on your terminal:
      sudo su
      cd /opt/lampp/htdocs
      mkdir magentosite
      cd magentosite

Download Latest magento version with demo data from Magentoecommerce site and copy that tar.gz 
files under  /opt/lampp/htdocs/magentosite. Here, I am downloanding magento-1.4.2.0.tar.gz (magento version), 
magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz 

     cp magento-1.4.2.0.tar.gz /opt/lampp/htdocs/magentosite/
     cp magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz /opt/lampp/htdocs/magentosite/
     
Uncompress downloaded files
     cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/magentosite/
     tar -zxvf magento-1.4.2.0.tar.gz
     tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.2.0

Move uncompressed data files to appropriate magento directory
     mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/media/* magento/media/
     mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0.sql magento/data.sql


Move magento directory and its content to parent directory,i.e. under /opt/lampp/htdocs/magentosite
     mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .

Change initial permissions of files

     chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc
     chmod -R o+w media


Setup test data to the database
     mysql -u root magentotestdb < data.sql

Cleanup downloaded files
      rm -fr magento-sample-data-1.2.0/ magento/
      rm magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz magento-1.4.2.0.tar.gz data.sql 

BROWSE! AND INSTALL

We’re done! Navigate to http://localhost/magentosite
During the installation procedure, choose localhost as address of host and give the database name used above (magentotestdb).




  

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2013 at 12:31 AM

    Thank you Sir! Your doc help me so much.
    - Krupesh Laiya

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    1. Joyal shahFebruary 27, 2014 at 12:07 AM

      Thanks for reading Krupesh. This post is too old but happy to read your feedback. It will motivate me to activate my blog again with some technical writings... :)

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