Comments on: Installing Magento Commerce on DreamHost – Updated for 1.4.1.0

By: Cristi

Cristi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:46:33 +0000

Great link. Is rare when you find an article so simple and complete and to work from first.
The wget ideea was great.
Thank you.

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By: JuanJose

JuanJose — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:06:15 +0000

1) Unfortunately I don’t know what caused that error, it sounds more like an SQL permissions issue then an installer problem, but it could be.
2) Personally, yeah I think Magento is worth it. It’s got a steep learning curve, and can be difficult to work with at times, but it’s the only e-commerce software I’ll recommend to clients.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:41:47 +0000

I ran the shell script exactly as described above, but I am getting the same error I got when I ran it from the code “General error: 1005 Can’t create table ‘./ki_magento/#sql-2872_c506.frm’” I can’t even figure out what table it can’t create.

I also tried installing magento on a MAMP server, that didn’t even give me an error, the installer just doesn’t work.

I have two questions:
1) Any idea what I need to do to get the software installed on dreamhost?
2) Is Magento worth it? I see people posting about other massive problems they have with the software. Is there something I am missing?

By: JuanJose

JuanJose — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:01:04 +0000

Personally, I would clear out the database and remove all your files, then go through the install again. No clue about the log as I haven’t seen errors like this yet.

By: Michael Plant

Michael Plant — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:56:25 +0000

Thanks a lot for taking the time to post this, it looked very promising even through installation. The first time it failed because I did not have a number in my admin password. But now it is throwing an error: FAILED
ERROR: Invalid mode for clean() method

Do you have any ideas what would cause this? Is it a pear thing or is this trying to remove the magento directory?

The thing is that my homepage still loads, I was able to submit a poll in the sidebar, but when I go to the admin login page, I enter my credentials and it throws me another error: Error log record number: 391738256155

Do you know how I can view the log?

Thanks again,
Mike

By: JuanJose

JuanJose — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:28:48 +0000

It’s NOT a good idea to run Magento on shared hosting with DH. If you want to get good performance you need to run it on a PS. Other then that you need to read up on SSH:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SSH

So you’ll login using ssh to execute the commands.

By: spike

spike — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:57:34 +0000

Hi Jose,
I was wandering for how to install magento in Dreamhost for a couple of hours and found your post here. i hope this really works better then the rest. But sorry to ask this I’m quite new to this shell programming and other stuffs, so can u tell where I’m supposed to type in this command, but any way I created a shell user in my account.But can’t find where to do this. I have a shared hosting account with DH.
Thanks in Advance !

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:53:41 +0000

Thank you very much, your time and effort is much appreciated!

By: Sam Rossetti

Sam Rossetti — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:26:41 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I’ve followed some other tutorials and they didn’t work. This was by far the easiest. I’m def gonna “Buy you a soda”.