A quick tutorial of Magento E-commerce installation on Wamp Server

Magento is an ecommerce platform, for selling goods and services online.

Before we start the installation, make sure you have php_mcrypt and php_curl enabled, we need these extensions working and also, ensure your database is already created, I named mine 'magento', of course.

Download the Full Magento Package here, extract it to your www folder.

In your browser address bar, type in '127.0.0.1', NOT 'localhost', otherwise, you will get some Cookie issues, which will not allow you to login to your Magento administration page after the installation.

For some unknown reason, Magento does not set Cookies on "localhost". I had to delete my first try, but the second time it worked fine.

Let's get back on track, now, continue with the stepts, when you get to the field 'Host', type in '127.0.0.1', rather than 'localhost' and in the 'base path' field, again, type in '127.0.0.1', so the full path should be '127.0.0.1/magento/'.

Continue with the steps, things should be fine after this point.

I wrote this tutorial because I made a mistake in the 'Host' and the 'base path' fields, I left them to the default ones 'localhost', which should be '127.0.0.1'. This is the solution if you get Cookies issues. I believe this is not a browser issue, but the software itself, using Magento on a real domain, should work smoothly.