Learning Magento (1)

This article introduces Magento for the beginner.

Requirements

System requirements

• Magento system requirements

Magento files

This example demonstrates the Community Edition.

Web server

• Web server
  • PHP
  • MySQL

Knowledge

• Knowledge of MySQL database configuration
• Knowledge of Magento installation
  • Magento Community Edition User Guide
  • Magento Designer's Guide

Steps

See: Installing and Verifying Magento Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE)

Download

Download the Magento Community Edition:

• https://www.magentocommerce.com/download

Select the Full Release version. This is the latest stable release.

Select format for your operating system:

• .zip - see Zip (file format)
• .tar.bz - see tar (computing)
• .tar.bz2 - see tar (computing) and bzip2

Upload to web server

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Configure database connection

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Run installer script

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Next steps

See Magento 1.x Reference.

Magento Test Automation Framework (TAF)

Four simple steps to get started:

(1) Install git: If you don't have it installed already, make sure you download and install git from:

• http://git-scm.com/download

(2) Execute the following command from the command prompt:

• git clone https://github.com/magento/taf DIR_for_CLONE

(3) Install TAF:

• Installation guide

(4) See the User Manual for further instructions:

User Manual

See also

• Content management system
• E-commerce
• Magento
• Web content management system

External links

Offical website

• Home page
• Download Magento Community Edition
• Installing and Verifying Magento Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE)

YouTube

• Magento Community Tutorials #1 - How To Install Magento

Other external sites

• Magento @ Wikipedia