Oct 11, 2010
Magento, In 5 Minutes
This is a quick tut for the fastest way to install Magento. You’ll need SSH access and the wget utility if you don’t already. First step is to visit Magento and make a note of the latest stable release. At the time this post was written, the latest release was 1.4.1.1 Next, log into your root directory via SSH and run the following commands:
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.4.1.1/magento-1.4.1.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-1.4.1.1.tar.gz mv magento/* magento/.htaccess . chmod -R o+w media ./pear mage-setup . ./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable touch var/.htaccess | mkdir app/etc chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/* rm -rf magento/ magento-1.4.1.1.tar.gz
After that all it takes is to point your browser to the URL associated with the root directory and follow the simple web based install.
