Installing Magento !

[Nockster]

Hello all,
could anyone please tell me if they have had any problems installing Magento onto cPanel ?

I have started the installation process but come across 2 x PHP Extension errors :-

pdo_mysql
iconv

Does cPanel support these extensions ? Is there a way around this ?

Please help

Many thanks
Simon

 

[troxalias]

You should recompile apache through whm and specificaly enable these 2 extensions among others.

 

[Nockster]

Hello again. Have had a look at my cPanel and there is no option to re-compile Apache and do the necessary actions. I only have the basic package, would I need to upgrade at all to get WHM ?

Many thanks
Simon

 

[gupi]

You need full root access (usually as for a dedicated server or a VPS) in order to recompile Apache.
A second option would be for you to buy a small VPS, without cPanel, just for this site (the free control panel called webmin should be enough for your needs)

 

[Zion Ahead]

Where is PDO found in apache compile (via whm)??? I could not find it in the exhaustive list.

Using php 4 / mysql 4

 

[cPanelDavidG]

Where is PDO found in apache compile (via whm)??? I could not find it in the exhaustive list.

Using php 4 / mysql 4

The EasyApache system only supports PDO for PHP 5.

If you are still using PHP 4, note that it reaches end of life in exactly 6 months. You may wish to switch to PHP 5 or at least a concurrent PHP 4 and 5 setup as soon as possible.

 

[gtgeorge]

Hello again. Have had a look at my cPanel and there is no option to re-compile Apache and do the necessary actions. I only have the basic package, would I need to upgrade at all to get WHM ?

Many thanks
Simon

You will have to find a host that supports this if you don't have root access. We set up our server for a user that wished to run it and found it to be a storefront in it's infancy and not a practical solution for an ecommerce site. Might be better off choosing a different solution rather than change hosts.

 

[aegis]

Magento is only a beta release currently. It's not due for a non-beta before end of March. It's very powerful. It's got great potential to finally see off OSCommerce or Zen Cart which are frankly past their sell by date. Bits of OSCommerce rely on php3 behaviour - awful.

It does however require a bit of admin to get the server prepared for it and it's also currently a little too slow to be used in shared hosting environments IME. The first visit to a site with it running is pretty slow as it loads up it's frameworks but after that it's pretty good.

I've got it running on one of my servers for the intrepid but I wouldn't use it in production use yet.

 

[gdromig]

Do this mean that Magento has to have php5 running as CGI?
Does PEAR have to be pre-installed? Because the users error message talks about pear-STABLE failing:

Downloading and installing Magento, please wait...

Attempting to discover channel "pear"...
unknown channel "pear" in "pear/PEAR-stable"
invalid package name/package file "pear/PEAR-stable"
Cannot initialize 'pear/PEAR-stable', invalid or missing package file

Lots more errors after this first one.

TIA,
gdr

 

[aegis]

Magento is PHP v5 only as it uses the Zend Framework. You can run it as a cgi or not.

PEAR doesn't need to be installed, the installer should do it itself.

If you've got errors you're probably best asking in the magento forum. http://www.magentocommerce.com/