Installing Magento Commerce on Windows and IIS (part 2)
Alright, sorry for the super long delay on this part 2. I’ve been really bogged down with several projects and one of them is a quite large Magento Enterprise implementation (crossing my finger that the site is launching in a week). I will announce it on my blog when that happens.
Anyway, the second part is actually quite easy. It is pretty much about setting up your empty MySQL database for use with Magento. Here are the steps:
- Install MySQL Server (obviously) – this process should be a no brainer process. Just download the installation package and run it. You need to configure the MySQL to support both InnoDB and ISAM for Magento to work. Follow the setup wizard and you will be okay
- You may want to download MySQL GUI Tool as well. Or if you are looking for a good GUI, I suggest you try NaviCat. It is probably the closest application that give you something similar to what we see on our Microsoft SQL Management Studio tool
- Create new database (or schema). Name whatever you want. I usually create user along with that and assign the user to the database and give all access
- That’s it. You are ready to install Magento
So now the rest should be pretty straight forward. Once you put the Magento code on the Apache, call out the main URL (don’t use localhost or IP, if you don’t have domain, create dummy one through host file). You will see the Magento setup wizard. Follow the setup steps and you will be good to go.
Cheers.
