Magento

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Magento shopping cart is compatible with our shared hosting packages. Below are instructions on how to install it on your account:

1. Download the .zip or .tar.gz installer package from the Magento website here and decompress it.

2. Upload all the decompressed files to your A2Hosting account via FTP.

3. Create a MySQL database and user/password for Magento. You can do this by going to cPanel > 'MySQL databases'.

4. The top-level Magento directory (the one you uploaded the decompressed files to) must have the correct permissions in order for the installer to proceed. To do so, navigate to the directory in cPanel's File Manager or your FTP client. Then locate the function “Change Permissions” or “Change Mode” in the File Manager or your FTP client and select it. Once you find the function, you must set the permissions so the web server can write to this file. There are two typical ways of representing file permissions in Linux:

  • As a number (eg, 755)
  • As a series of permissions categorized into user, group, and other

If your FTP client uses the first representation, set the permissions on the directory to be 777, or 0777. If your FTP client uses the second representation, check the permissions for user, group, and other to read, write and execute.

5. Now use your web browser to surf to the Magento installation wizard. If you’ve uploaded the Magento files to http://www.example.com/magento/, then the wizard will be located here: http://www.example.com/magento/.

6. Since you are using the installer version, the downloader will be the first installation process to run. It will attempt to download all the necessary components for a complete Magento install. If you notice a few “Warning” messages zip by on the green-on-black screen, don’t worry too much about it. The installer will detect an overall success or failure, and if you see the “Continue Magento Installation” button at the end (usually takes about 5 minutes) then the process has succeeded. Click the “Continue Magento Installation” button to continue on to the regular installer wizard.

7. Once in the wizard, you can configure various system-level settings that are required for Magento to function. Most options will be intelligently guessed for you, but you’re free to override any settings that don’t look right. At the very least, change the database parameters in the first box, “Database connection”, to match those of the database you set up in Step 3.

8. Success! You’ve completed a Magento installation. You can now visit the administration backend and begin configuring your new online store.

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