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Magento On Windows with Zend Framework question.
For one reason or another, I want to run Magento on a windows server installation.
There is very little documentation about doing this, which worries me. There is a page on the Magento site which talks about an all in one zend / magneto package. There is also a lot about it on the zend site itself.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/magento-zend
http://www.zend.com/solutions/packaged-php-applications/zend-server-magento
It seems they reccomend the zend framework as the most reliable way of running Magento, and they have a windows version... I have tried installing this with limited success, I think I will get a freelancer to assist.
I understand very little about Zend, Wamp, Xamp etc. I really want to have a reliable fully working magento setup on windows. Is there any reason why this would be unreliable, using the zend installer.... Or could anyone recoomend a better way of doing this?
I would be very grateful, for any advice offered.
Alex
There is very little documentation about doing this, which worries me. There is a page on the Magento site which talks about an all in one zend / magneto package. There is also a lot about it on the zend site itself.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/magento-zend
http://www.zend.com/solutions/packaged-php-applications/zend-server-magento
It seems they reccomend the zend framework as the most reliable way of running Magento, and they have a windows version... I have tried installing this with limited success, I think I will get a freelancer to assist.
I understand very little about Zend, Wamp, Xamp etc. I really want to have a reliable fully working magento setup on windows. Is there any reason why this would be unreliable, using the zend installer.... Or could anyone recoomend a better way of doing this?
I would be very grateful, for any advice offered.
Alex
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Hi thanks for your help,
I think I over estimated the difficulty in installing on IIS as I could not find any positive information about running it on windows...I was half expecting people to come in and say don't do it, switch to linux etc.
I have had a good seesion at it and made some good progress... and have got past quite a few obstacles... I am now at the database connection screen. and getting:
cannot load url
Error parsing body - doesn't seem to be a chunked message
I believe this is somethiing to do with mod-rewrite, I am using ISAPI Rewrite version 2. Are you running version 3?
Cheers
Alex
I think I over estimated the difficulty in installing on IIS as I could not find any positive information about running it on windows...I was half expecting people to come in and say don't do it, switch to linux etc.
I have had a good seesion at it and made some good progress... and have got past quite a few obstacles... I am now at the database connection screen. and getting:
cannot load url
Error parsing body - doesn't seem to be a chunked message
I believe this is somethiing to do with mod-rewrite, I am using ISAPI Rewrite version 2. Are you running version 3?
Cheers
Alex
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OK I got a developer to sort this... Just to share the information it came down to deleting some install files.
It seems to be a problem with the install itself. Posted below are comment from developer:
if get any erros like sql duplicate - table allready exists in xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
that error conected to sql tables update
simply go in filebrowser and change xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
to xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
and run site in browser once again, untill it properly view index of site
if it properly view frontend, that means database is fully updated to ne versions
It seems to be a problem with the install itself. Posted below are comment from developer:
if get any erros like sql duplicate - table allready exists in xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
that error conected to sql tables update
simply go in filebrowser and change xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
to xxx\xxx\xxx\xxx\xx.xxx.xx-
and run site in browser once again, untill it properly view index of site
if it properly view frontend, that means database is fully updated to ne versions
You would only come across that error,'sql duplicate - table allready exists', if you attempted a previous install and forgot to delete the database before another installation attempt. The install on win2k3 above had no errors, warnings, or notices during install.
Just to test the latest version of magento, I downloaded and installed it on a windows 2003 IIS server with isapi_rewrite installed and it took 15mins following the bog standard install instructions. Works fine.