The following short procedure shows the steps you need to take to install Magento using Installatron:
test
directory on www.boostingecommerce.com:Note that for this installation, we've chosen to install the Magento sample data, which will help us in getting an explanation of the Magento software. It's fine if you're installing for learning purposes, but in a store that is meant to be your live shop, it's better to start off completely empty.
In the second part of the installation form, there are a few fields that you have to pay attention to:
If your host isn't offering Installatron and you would like to install Magento on it, how will you know if it's possible? In other words, will Magento run? Of course you can simply try to install and run Magento, but it's better to check for the minimum requirements before going that route. You can use the following method to test if your hosting provider meets all requirements needed to run Magento.
First, create a text
file using your favorite editor and name it as phpinfo.php
. The contents of the file should be:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save and upload this file to the root
folder of your hosting environment, using an ftp
tool such as Filezilla.
Next, open your browser using this address: http://yourdomain.com/phpinfo.php; use your own domain name of course. You will see a screen similar to the following:
Note that in the preceding screenshot, our XAMPP installation is using PHP 5.4.7. And as we mentioned earlier, Magento isn't compatible with this PHP version yet. So what about that? Well, XAMPP just comes with a recent stable release of PHP. Although it is officially not supported, in most cases your Magento test environment will run fine.
Something similar to the previous screenshot will be shown, depending on your PHP (and XAMPP) version. Using this result, we can check for any PHP module that is missing. Just go through the list at the beginning of this chapter and verify if everything that is needed is available and enabled: