Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Installing Magento Via SSH

Installing Magento With The Full Download

Installing Into The Website Document Root

I took this content from the Magento WIKI page, since they have removed the Search feature for the Magento WIKI's I figured it would be easier to find this way for myself and others! Since this Post will soon become outdated, I must tell you to change the version number for your download. i.e. if you want version 1.5.1 you will put magento-1.5.1.0.tar.gz When version 1.7 comes out you will need magento-1.7.0.0
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.1.0/magento-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
chmod -R o+w media var
chmod o+w app/etc
rm -rf magento/ magento-1.6.1.0.tar.gz

Install Magento using the downloader

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.5.0.0/magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
rm -rf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz

Install into a Subdirectory

For this install you only need to replace SUBDIRECTORY below (two times) with the name of the subdirectory that you want Magento installed in.
mkdir SUBDIRECTORY
cd SUBDIRECTORY
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.5.0.0/magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
rm -rf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz

Installing Magento With The Downloader & Sample Data

Installing into the Root Web Directory

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.5.0.0/magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz
mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/media/* magento/media/
mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0.sql magento/data.sql
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
chmod -R o+w media
mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -p'DBPASS' DBNAME < data.sql
./mage mage-setup .
./mage install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable
chmod o+w var app/etc
rm -rf magento/ magento-sample-data-1.2.0/
rm -rf magento-downloader-1.5.0.0.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz data.sql
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Monday, October 3, 2011

How to find the Magento version - Quick and Easy

Many Magento store leave the release notes in the root of their website. This is the fastest way to find out what version the site is running

http://www.domain.com/RELEASE_NOTES.txt

Of course if you remove the file or change the permissions you will not find it.