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Setting up Magento 1.4 locally, MAMP

As the title says, I am trying to set up an old 1.4 Magento installation locally with MAMP.

Things i did so far:

  • Download entire website
  • Import Database
  • Change unsecure and secure base_url
  • Change database user information in local.xml
  • Delete everything inside the var folder
  • Set PHP version to 5.3

A fresh install of 1.4 Magento works fine on my system.

All I get is a Magento error screen saying "There has been an error processing your request"

The error messages generated to the var/report folder are exe files, and return something like

/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sandbergdesign/var/report/624953303320: line 17: syntax error near unexpected token }' /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sandbergdesign/var/report/624953303320: line 17:#16 {main}";s:3:"url";s:1:"/";s:11:"script_name";s:10:"/index.php";s:4:"skin";s:7:"default";}' logout

When clicked

Solution

  • I got it up and running.

    I decided to download a fresh Magento 1.9, and installed it using the OLD database, the one from the Magento 1.4 site.

    I also had to truncate the following tables in the DB:

    • Truncate all log_ tables
    • Truncate report_event, report_compared_product_index, and report_viewed_product_index

    After truncating I could complete the installation process, and can proceed to implement the old theme, test functionality, etc.