Front End / Sample Data Incomplete?

Question

Decided to check out Magento, so I downloaded the sample data and Magento CE. I installed the sample data and CE locally using WAMP.

Everything went smoothly, but when I go to view the frontend, it seems the main images are missing(see below). Also any links I click on, I get a Not Found message:

Not Found Error looks like this :

The requested URL /magento/accessories/eyewear.html was not found on this server.

Anyone else have a similar problem in the past? I'm perplexed as to how to correct this?

I tried reinstalling but got same result.

Thank you for your time. George

Answer 1

About Image Problem

Most probably, you may forget to merge the folders that is available in sample data (media, skin) folder with Magento's default media, skin folder. If you didn't do that, please merge those folders.

If you did that step, then you need to check the permission of media folder. You need to have both read & write (777) permission for this folder. Set that permission to media folder.

About Page Not Found Problem

Most probably, it is modRewrite issue. First you need to check whether this url works for you

 /magento/index.php/accessories/eyewear.html

Please note the insertion of index.php inside the url. If the above url actually "finds" the page, then it is surely a modeRewrite issue. You can fix it using following steps.

step 1: Go to to your site root folder and you can find the .htaccess file there. Open it with a text editor and find the line

#RewriteBase /magento/. 

Just replace it with

RewriteBase /

step 2: Then go to your admin panel and enable the Rewrites(set yes for Use Web Server Rewrites). You can find it at

System->Configuration->Web->Search Engine Optimization.

step 3: Remove all cache of your site. For this, remove all content that comes inside var/cache folder. Don't worry about this step.It is safe. This is where magento cache files are hold.

For more details, go through this post.

Answer 2

It worked for me after I added the following file to the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory:

magento.conf

Alias /mage /var/www/html/magento

<Directory /var/www/html/magento>

    Options FollowSymLinks

    AllowOverride all

     RewriteEngine On

 </Directory>