Free E-commerce system and step by step configure Magento

One of the very famous free open source e-commerce system is Magento.  Out side the frontend for customer to register account, search, browse product and make a only purchasing, Magento has a power full backend system, Magento Admin Panel, with alot of modules: Dashboard, Sales, Catalog, Cusomers, Promotions, Newsletter, CMS, Reports and System.

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We see the frontend of the e-commerce look like

Backend, Admin Panel, with Dashboard, look like

Magento Sales modules with child modules: Orders, Invoices, Shipments, Credit Memos, Terms and conditions, Tax

Magento Catalog with Manage Products, Manage Catagories, Attributes, Url Rewrite Management, Search, Reviews and Ratings, Tags, Google Base, Google Sitemap

Magento Customers with Manage Customers, Customer Groups and Online Customers

Magento Promotions with Catalog Price Rules and Shopping Cart Price Rules

Magento Newsletter with Newsletter Templates, Newsletter Que, Newsletter Subscribers, Newsletter Problem Reports

Magento CMS with Manage Pages, Static Blocks and Poll Manager

Magento Reports For Sales, Shopping Cart, Products, Customers, Reviews, Tags and Search Terms

Magento Sales Report, Tax, Shipping, Total invoiced, Total refunded and Coupons

Magento Shopping Cart Reports with Products in carts and Abandoned carts

Magento Products Reports with Bestsellers, Most Viewed, Low stock and Downloads

Magento Customers with New Accounts, Customers by orders total and Customer by number of orders

Magento Reviews Reports with Customers Reviews and Products Reviews

Magento Tags Reports with Customers Products and Popular

Magento System with My Account, Notifications, Tools, Web Services, Design, Import or Export, Manage Currency Rates, Transactional Emails, Permissions, Magento Content, Cache Management, Manage Stores and Configuration

System tools with Backups functions

Web Services system for Users and Roles

Import or Export for Profiles and Advanced Profiles

Permissions system for Users and Roles

Magento Connect with Magento Connect Manager and Package Extensions

A. Create a new account with frontend e-commerce portal
A.1. Click on Log In

A.2. Create a new customer account

A.3. Fill information for a new account

A.4. My Account Dashboard

B. Make a item order
B.1. Click on Camera tag

B.2. Click on Add to Cart

B.3.Click on Proceed to Checkout

B.4. Billing Information

B.5. Shipping Method

B.6. Payment Information

B.7. Order Review and Place Order

B.8.Your order has been received

C. Order information at Admin Panel
C.1. Sale Orders

C.2. Manage Customers

C.3. Dashboard

C.4. Sales Report

C.5. Shipping Report

C.6. Bestsellers Reports

D. Step by step to configure Magento

D.1. First at all download 
xampp-win32-1_6_7-installer.zip 
magento-1_2_1_2.zip
magento-sample-data-1_2_0.zip

D.2. Setup xampp-win32-1_6_7. it run well on Windows Server 2008 64 Bit SP2. You can choose what version of XAMPP that you want, and must also choose suitable Magento version to run with XAMPP

D.3. XAMPP Control Panel, If Apache can not start, we should restart server, and should check if there ia any application use port 80 or 443

D.4. The first time of running localhost

D.5.XAMPP for Windows look like

D.6. XAMPP Status

D.7. phpMyAdmin

D.8. Open httpd.conf of apache

 

D.9. un comment mod_rewrite line

D.10. open C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
D.11. un comment for php script, un comment for php culture and un comment php Pdo to connect with MySQL

D.12. Create a magento new database

D.13. Import data to Magento database
Browse to magento-sample-data-1.2.0 and select magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0

D.14.  Click Go to import sample data for magento database

D.15. Copy magento folder from magento-1.2.1.2 to C:\xampp\htdocs

D.16. Copy catalog from magento-sample-data-1.2.0\media to C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\media

D.17. Welcome to Magento's Installation Wizard!

D.18.Can config with any Location, Time Zone and Default Currentcy

D.19. Configuration with magento database by root account

D.20. Create Admin Account

D.21. Get ready to experience Open-Source eCommerce Evolved

D.22. With click on go to Frontend

D.23. With click on go to Backend

God bless us!