Magento
Magento is an open source content management system for e-commerce websites.
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Description
The software was originally developed by Varien Inc., a US private company headquartered in Culver City, California, with assistance from volunteers.
Varien published the first general-availability release of the software on March 31, 2008. Roy Rubin, former CEO of Varien, later sold a substantial share of the company to eBay, which is now the sole owner.
According to research conducted by aheadWorks in October 2014, Magento's market share among the 30 most popular e-commerce platforms is about 30%.
Magento employs the MySQL relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework.
It applies the conventions of object-oriented programming and model-view-controller architecture.
Magento also uses the entity–attribute–value model to store data.
Magento FAQ
Locate webroot
Locate your webroot folder on your web server. This is the folder which contains your Magento files.
View the files in this folder.
View contents of local.xml
Locate the view this file:
/app/etc/local.xml
Locate the line that looks something like the example below:
<frontName>...</frontName>
The "..." is your frontName. Use it in your administrator login URL.
Administrator login URL
Your admin login URL will look like the URL below, with your frontName in place of "...":
http://example.com/index.php/...
Getting started with Magento
See Getting started with Magento.
Modules
To do: module that overrides Mage_Core_Model_Store::getBaseUrl() such that the module returns a modified base URL:
- Standard base URL:
http://magento.karljones.com - Modified base URL:
http://magento-dev.karljones.com
