Magento is a very popular Content Management System these days.

This post will help you transfer your Magento installation to any Server. First Verify the Magento installation. Follow the step by step tutorial to transfer local Magento store to a another server.

First step for transferring local Magento installation to another/Live server is to move the files and database.

Requirements

Before moving contents to a new server you need to have the following:

I will tell you right off the bat that I don’t “get” regular expressions, and I don’t get .htacess rewrite rules. I wish I understood them better, but there’s some part of my brain that just fights me every time I try to get a better all-around understanding. Still, I have to (and want to) do stuff with htaccess, so I end up digging for code online, and trying stuff until something works. I wish I knew more about WHY it worked, but I’m just happy that it wo

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