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Archive for November, 2007

Magento – How to report a problem in this forum

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Michael 0n November 29 2007

Here are the steps you have to follow if you do really want to get a quick and meaningful answer:

• Make sure you carefully read Magento System Requirements and Installation Guide (you can find A collection of Magento Installation Guides / Tutorials listed in the nearby post)

• Look through the Knowledge Base, Wiki and Forum – they might already have an aswer for you

• Copy and paste the entire error message

• Describe the steps you followed before you get an error

• Don’t forget to mention the Magento version and package type (light or full one) you are trying to install

• Describe your environment – PHP and MySQL versions, pdo_mysql and mysqli extensions versions, type of your hosting account (shared hosting or virtual/dedicated server), and how PHP is run – as Apache module or CGI/FastCGI

• Provide a link to phpinfo.php created under your Magento root directory if possible

• If you have modified the .htaccess file please post its content in block

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Magento – view one or more categories on a choosen page

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by __pete® 0n November 22 2007

is it possible to get the category view on a page i want? (e.g. homepage could show one) and if that works – is it possible to get more then one category shown on one page? (i don’t want to write a really new module doing all the things which category ->productlist rendering already does ..

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Magento – Magento Install Step by Step Tutorials

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by RoyRubin 0n November 21 2007

A collection of Magento Installation Guides / Tutorials

Install Guides

- Magento Installation Guide
- Installing Magento on a PHP4 server

Magento Wiki

- Installing Magento on Slicehost with Ubuntu
- Installing with Lighttpd and FastCGI
- Media Temple Magento Installation Guide – Grid Service
- MediaTemple Magento Installation Guide – Dedicated-Virtual Server
- Installing on Windows with XAMPP and WAMP

- Magento Common Installation Problem in Windows

Magento Forums

- One and One (1&1;) Hosting Install Guide Thread (shared server)
- Magento on a VMWare Version of Ubunto 7.10
- Barebones Guide: 1and1.com Shared Hosting Installation (North America)

3rd Party Tutorials

- Crucial Web Hosting Magento Install Guide
- Magento E-Commerce Solution On Debian Etch
- Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost

International

- German Install Guide
- German Install Guide (using xampplite)
- Installation on Heart Internet UK Hosting
- How to install Magento on MacOSX in French

If you know of any other tutorials online, please PM me.

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Magento – Inventory Control Software & Accounting Software Support

Magento is the leading e-commerce platform rapidly gaining in popularity. This magento discussion was started by Sergey Kapustin 0n November 13 2007

Our client uses Fishbowl Inventory Software (http://www.fishbowlinventory.com/). This software recommends to use: Yahoo Shopping, OSCommerce or Monster Commerce platfroms. It fully supports only Yahoo shopping and with others it can interact through CSV format files.

We want to try Magento Commerce. Do you have experience or maybe even ready functionality to make Magento work with Inventory Control Software & Accounting Software such as Fishbowl Inventory and Quickbooks?

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