Install Magento

Following are the steps to install Magento manually from Shell.

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downl...19870.4.tar.gz

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downl...0.19870.tar.gz

tar -zxvf magento-1.0.19870.4.tar.gz

tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.0.19870.tar.gz

mv magento-sample-data-1.0.19870/media/* magento/media/

mv magento-sample-ta-1.0.19870/magento_sample_data_for_1.0.19870.sql magento/data.sql

cd magento

chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc

chmod -R o+w media

mysql -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME < data.sql

./pear mage-setup .

./pear install -f magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/* .htaccess.sample data.sql index.php.sample ../magento-1.0.19870.4.tar.gz ../magento-sample-data-1.0.19870/ ../magento-sample-data-1.0.19870.tar.gz

find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

If after installation you are facing the "500 Internal Error Server" problem then check Apache logs and correct the ownership and permission for the folders as per logs.

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