If you are installing Magento on your  WAMP (localhost), and you have also installed the Sample Data successfully, then you may come across a serious problem of all URLs being 404 Error Pages. Thats a real headache, as you are unsure, where you went wrong. Well,its not your mistake. Lets just fix it, so that you can apply this tip whenever next time, you are doing this same stuff. You will need to do one of two things: Refresh catalog rewrites - Admin > System > Cache > Refresh catalog rewrites. If this doesn’t work then , do this, Turn off URL Rewrites - Admin > System > Web > SEO > NO Then goto your frontend and refresh you...

If you are setting up a Magento store for your testing purpose or for any client, then its a must thing to Install Sample Data in your Magento store in order to test your settings or store.  It really doesnt matter,if you re a new user or a professional developer of Magento. So, here are the steps to be taken, if you want to install Sample Data into your Magento Store; 1. Download the Stable Magento Release and the Sample Data Package from here. 2. Proceed with Magento Installation, as you do. [ In case, you dont know that, then check our previous posts.] 3. Once the whole Magento is installed, unpack your Sample Data package, which you downloaded on Ste...

If you want to install Magento on WAMP server, localhost, then you are going to face a very irritating problem with it, which does not let you go into the admin panel, even if you enter the correct details. So, here is the simple fix to override this problem. This is for Magento v1.3.2.4 : Open this file, app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Session/Abstract/Varien.php and find the     session_set_cookie_params(line-78) and replace your code with this ; [php]session_set_cookie_params( $this->getCookie()->getLifetime(), $this->getCookie()->getPath() //$this->getCookie()->getDomain(), //$this->getCookie()->isSecure(), //$this...

Magento is a award winning eCommerce Platform, which has got a lot of features and options. Well, if you would like to exmplore all that, then the best way to start is installing Magento on localhost ( WAMP or XAMPP). Let me tell you that Magento is not easy to handle as it seems and its far complex than any other eCommerce platform or any existing CMS scripts. So, in order to install Magento on your localhost, you need to follow the following steps, in order to get a error free Magento test store. So, here is the list, 1. Download Magento from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download [ Make sure, you are downloading the latest Stable Release]. 2. Make a d...