Magento eCommerce

Install magento 0.9.17740 on os X leopard 10.5.2 step by step.

Both Magento and OS X have upgraded since this August 2008 writeup. But still useful info.

Download and extract the sample data file.

cd into the unzipped folder contents

# mysql -uroot -p
# mysql> create database magento;
# mysql> quit;
# mysql magento -uroot -p < magento_sample_data_for_0.9.17740.sql
Sample data is now in magento database.

Download and extract the packaged file.

Copy the resulting folder into the /LIbrary/Webserver/Documents folder.

Copy the /media folder from the data file download, the first download in other words, over the media folder created by the second download.

# cd /LIbrary/Webserver/Documents
# chown -R <your login name> magento
# chgrp -R www magento
# chmod -R 770 magento

In a web browser, enter the url:

http://localhost/magento

"Continue after manual download" button first chance you get.

In db details, db host is at, and this is very important --

/var/mysql/mysql.sock
--according to phpinfo() on my machine.

Replace default "localhost" with "/var/mysql/mysql.sock".

Then you try to login using the just created admin user and it does not work. You can view the catalog pages.
http://127.0.0.1/magento/admin/ and you can login using your just created credentials.

Localhost versus 127.0.0.1 is the problem getting an admin login in other words.

From there, all works as advertised. Slick.