Installing Magento E-Commerce with Sample Data seems to have changed a bit since Magento 1.4, at least with Magento version 1.4.0.1.
You shouldn’t just copy the media/catalog folder before, but do the steps in this tutorial in order:
- Create database
- Load sample DB into database
- Extract Magento
- Run installation
- Ensure you get to the configure database page. Magento will complain about un-writeable directories. chmod or chown these folders (app/etc, var, and media)
- Only AFTER you get to the “configure database” page, copy the “media/catalog” from Magento sample data distribution into your magento media folder. Make sure to redo chmod or chown on media.
- During configure, enable rewrites. (should be enabled on ALL Magento installations for basic SEO support)
- After installation, edit .htaccess and edit RewriteBase if you’re not on root URI
If you do step #6 before installation, you’ll never reach step #5 !
This is probably a bug in Magento, but not a very serious issue.
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