Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce solution built on open-source technology using PHP. When I first learned Magento of course I had to follow some instructions to install Magento in my local server and here is some short instructions by which someone can get help. It can be easily installed on windows with XAMPP and WAMP and before it, I recommend to install the latest version of XAMPP or WAMP. It is also a best practise using the latest version of any software because the latest version has the previous bug fixed and the new release is published.

Download the latest version of Magento from here http://www.magentocommerce.com/download and after unzipping keep the magento folder or renaming it to your server root doc. For XAMPP htdocs is the server root folder and www for WAMP. Now follow the instructions here

1)
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#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

(just remove the # ) in your httpd.conf file

2) Edit apache/bin/php.ini and php/php.ini (same changes on both files) change lines (the first change is not necessary on xampp):

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;extension=php_mcrypt.dll

to

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extension=php_mcrypt.dll

and changes lines:

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;extension=php_curl.dll

to

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extension=php_curl.dll

(just remove the ; )

2-a) On WAMP you must also change the following line in apache2/bin/php.ini and php/php.ini changes lines:

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      ;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

to

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extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

(just remove the ; )

In addition to php_pdo_mysql.dll, you may also need to make sure you are loading:

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      extension=php_pdo.dll

3) Restart all servers

4) Goto: http://localhost/magento/install (replace the above “magento” with where your installation was extracted to)

5) On page 2 “Configuration” change database as needed and change Secure Connection to: (XAMPP actually supports SSL over port 443 - so this step is not needed if you want to test SSL)

Secure Host: localhost (could be different)
Secure Base Path: /magento/ (also could be different)
Secure Protocol: http
Secure Port: 80

6) Continue with install, all should be good!

NOTE If you can’t login to the administration panel after installation, that’s because there’s a cookie problem. Add these lines:

127.0.0.1        magento.localhost.com www.localhost.com

to:

C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts (edit this file in notepad)

Then go to www.localhost.com/

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