Installing Magento 1.9.3.2

This section describes how to install Magento into the XAMPP server without sample data.

Downloading

The steps to downloading Magento are:

• Unzip magento-downloader-1.9.1.0-2015-02-09-10-17-59.zip and the extracted file downloader.php must be copied to C:\POC\xampp\htdocs\magento. Where magentodirectory must be created previously. This complete directory must have write access permissions.
• Open php.ini file and locate curl.cainfo parameter. Ensure it contains: curl.cainfo="C:\POC\xampp\perl\vendor\lib\Mozilla\CA\cacert.pem"
• Open php.ini file and locate openssl.cafile parameter. Ensure it contains: openssl.cafile="C:\POC\xampp\perl\vendor\lib\Mozilla\CA\cacert.pem
• Open php.ini file and uncomment line extension=php_soap.dll
• Start up XAMPP server executing C:\POC\xampp\xampp-control.exe (Apache and MySQL modules only)

• Create an empty database magento1932 using phpMyAdmin. For development purposes the default rootuser with no password could be valid: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

• Open a browser and point it out to http://localhost/magento/downloader.php

• Click continue and see the messages

• Complete database connection information. Database: magento1932, Host: 127.0.0.1, User: root, User Password: empty. Clic Continue

• Next

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• After a while the process is finished. Magento is installed Into the same directory where downloader.php is: C:\POC\xampp\htdocs\magento

Installing

The steps to installing Magento are:

• Point the browser out to http://localhost/magento

• Next

• Next and complete database information

• Next and create the admin account: username: admin, password: admin123, encriptionkey: admin123

• Next

• Finished with Frontend URL http://127.0.0.1/magento/

• With Backend URL (admin/admin123 as credentials) http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin/

• That's it

Reinstalling

In order to reinstall the same Magento into the same server without downloading all files again:

• Delete file: C:\POC\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\etc\loca.xml
• Delete all the files and directories inside C:\POC\xampp\htdocs\magento\var
• Point the browser out to http://127.0.0.1/magento which is the name of the directory the Magento was installed.