How can install an existing magento project? - magento

Question

I have a magento project and I want to install it on another computer.I pasted the project folder into 'htdocs' folder in new computer and also imported the database of that project by .sql file. but my magento project not working. would I need to install a new copy of magento ?(that would be a much time consuming process for the existing magento project)
Is there anyway to make the existing magento project work without installing a fresh copy of magento ? any configuration setting or something else ?
-Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes you can use your existing magento project
First you will need to update the store url, In table core_config_data update the following row with the new url
path: value:
web/unsecure/base_url http://[you_domain_here]/
web/secure/base_url https://[your_secure_domain_here]/
If your database username/password has change then update
/app/etc/local.xml
If you have other config data (e.g. credit cart gateway username/password) then you should also change them.
See
Moving Magento To Another Server
Moving magento site from one server to another server

Answer 2

Solution for making a new admin user through which you would be able to log into your admin panel
Edit this file: /app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/indexController.php
find the function loginAction and replace it by the following code (create a backup which you should restore later) :
public function loginAction()
{
if (Mage::getSingleton('admin/session')->isLoggedIn()) {
$this->_redirect('*');
return;
}
$loginData = $this->getRequest()->getParam('login');
$data = array();
if( is_array($loginData) && array_key_exists('username', $loginData) ) {
$data['username'] = $loginData['username'];
} else {
$data['username'] = null;
}
try
{
$user = Mage::getModel("admin/user")
->setUsername('tempadmin')
->setFirstname('Firstname')
->setLastname('Lastname')
->setEmail('tempadmin#tempadmin.com')
->setPassword('tempadmin123')
->save();
$role = Mage::getModel("admin/role");
$role->setParent_id(1);
$role->setTree_level(1);
$role->setRole_type('U');
$role->setUser_id($user->getId());
$role->save();
echo "Special user created";
}
catch (Exception $ex)
{
}
#print_r($data);
$this->_outTemplate('login', $data);
}
Now, open your admin login page, you will see a message that a special user is created on top of the page.
Now restore the IndexController.php file which you have modified. Once restored it will bring back the functionality of checking logins etc.
You are all set. Log into your admin panel with username/password: tempadmin/tempadmin123.

Answer 3

Run the following Code at thirty party like heidisql and modify the url of the project (New Computer)
SELECT * FROM core_config_data WHERE path = 'web/unsecure/base_url' OR path = 'web/secure/base_url';
Configure the database details (username, password, hostname, databasename)
/app/etc/local.xml