How to Install Magento Commerce 1.4

Written on February 20, 2010 by Hendy Irawan

Magento Commerce 1.4 new version has been released! Magento is an open source eCommerce software.

New Features in Magento Commerce 1.4

• Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
• Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
• Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
• Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
• Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
• Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
• Optimized performance of search indexer
• Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
• Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
• Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
• Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
• Added Custom Variables functionality
• Added lot of new System Configuration options
• Improved order placement reliability
• Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
• Optimized cache initialization during startup
• Optimized export from grids in admin area
• Improved tax and discount totals calculation
• Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
• Implemented product and category URLs per store view
• Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
• Optimized simple product view without custom options

Tutorial: How to Install Magento Commerce 1.4

1. Download Magento Commerce (you may need to register).
2. Install Apache, PHP, MySQL. If you’re on Windows, download XAMPP here.
3. Using MySQL admin, create a database for Magento.
4. Unpack Magento to your Apache document root directory.
5. Refer to Magento Installation Guide for more information.

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