Today, when I was trying to setup a Magento store for a customer , I saw the products were not coming up on the frontend. So, I went to SYSTEM > INDEX MANAGEMENT , to reindex all the data.. But when I did that, it dint go through and said, "There was a problem with reindexing process" So, here is what I did to fix the problem, 1. Did a File Permissions Reset using this . Another solution is using Magento Clean Up Tool. 2. Went to var/cache folder on Magento root and cleaned the whole cache folder. Also made sure that cache folder is writable. 3. The best and ultimate way to fix this issue is by repairing the database....

If you are installing Magento directly on your server, then you may get some errors while opening the installation wizard on your browser, i.e, 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR. Its mainly because of the wrong FILE PERMISSIONS. The best way to solve this issue is here, 1. Download Magento Cleanup Tool 2. Unzip magento-cleanup.php to the root directory where Magento is installed. 3. Browse to http://yourdomain.com/magento/magento-cleanup.php...