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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Magento installation – not there yet

Filed under: Cart Vendors — thatsoftwareguy @ 5:01 am

Last weekend I upgraded my system and installed Magento. Since my Linux system is still on FC4, I had to download Apache and PHP sources and rebuild them by hand – no yum for you, young man! This was an interesting experience, and was useful in its own right since it allowed me to start using PHP’s built-in SOAP calls in some other software I’m writing.
However, Magento was disappointing. It kind-of sort-of works sometimes, but mostly I get these incredibly irritating blank page errors.

Magento errors

Based on what I’m seeing on their forum, this might be related to PHP 5.2.5. We’ll see …

Update: It seems that by using the private (192.168) IP address instead of localhost and updating httpd.conf to explicitly set the include path, you can get around this problem.

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