Tips for Installing Magento

Installing Magento is very similar to installing most PHP-based applicaNons. You first set up your Apache-MySQL-PHP environment, or confirm that your hosNng service has the right environment. Then you download, unzip, and upload Magento. You set permissions, and create a database and a database user. Finally, you step through the installaNon wizard. The result is a fully funcNonal Magento system that is ready to be customized into your storefront.

Configuring a store without having some products in place is like formaNng an empty word processing document. You just can't see the effect of your choices unless you have some products in place. However, Magento does offer some sample data that you can load directly into its database. There are direcNons for that on the official Magento web site. Keep in

mind, using their products will not teach you how to add your own products. Also, you will need to start adding your own products eventually. In the next chapter, we will start adding some products to your store.

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