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Before we start we need to upgrade the actual version available in CentOS 5.4 Official Release of PHP, which is version 5.1, to version 5.2 or later (PHP version 5.3 in our case), to be able to install and work with Magento.

To be safe and make things easily we will use YUM as Package Management Software. We assume that you have YUM installed and running.

Update PHP 5.1 to 5.3 under CentOS 5.4 using YUM:

First we need to make use of the RPM maintained by Remi Collet, here is the code to execute under bash to get it installed but disabled by default:

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm

now we will update PHP and related libraries:

yum --enablerepo=remi update php php-* mysql-*

Using YUM to install MBSTRING for PHP 5.*:

 yum --enablerepo=remi install php-mbstring

Using YUM to install MCRYPT for PHP 5.*:

 yum --enablerepo=remi install php-mcrypt

Using YUM to install GD for PHP 5.*:

 yum --enablerepo=remi install php-gd

Using YUM to install DOM for PHP 5.*:

 yum --enablerepo=remi install php-dom

At this stage we have the system requirements asked by Magneto, we will copy Magento to our website, in my case I will put it in Magento directory under the website root.

Actually our PHP version is 5.3 which causes a small compatibility problem with Magento, when you browse to your-website-folder/your-magento-folder/ you should have an error (if you have display_errors enabled in your php, if not click here to know how to activate it) saying this:

For those who have noticed this Fatal error:

Method Varien_Object::__tostring() cannot take arguments in /magento/lib/Varien/Object.php

This is a Magento compatibility issue relatively to php 5.3. To fix it we need to change a couple lines of code in two separate files:

1- in your-website-folder/your-magento-folder/app/code/lib/Varien/Object.php (Line 484) :

Change this:

public function __toString(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=’,’)

to this:

public function __invoke(array $arrAttributes = array(), $valueSeparator=’,’)

2- in your-website-folder/your-magento-folder/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Request/Http.php (Line 274) :

Change this:

$host = split(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

to this:

$host = explode(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);

For those who have noticed this Fatal error:

Warning: include_once(Varien/Autoload.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\Mage.php on line 50
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Varien/Autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\local;C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\community;C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\core;C:\inetpub\\wwwroot\lib;.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\Mage.php on line 50
Warning: include(Varien\Autoload.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\core\Mage\Core\functions.php on line 68
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'Varien\Autoload.php' for inclusion (include_path='C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\local;C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\community;C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\core;C:\inetpub\wwwroot\lib;.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\code\core\Mage\Core\functions.php on line 68
Fatal error: Class 'Varien_Autoload' not found in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\Mage.php on line 53

If you have this, it is probably caused by a ” Bug ” on the Mage.php file of the pack magento-1.3.2.4.tar.gz.

To resolve it, open the file Mage.php that you can find in your-website-folder/your-magento-folder/app/Mage.php

In line 45, change this:

$paths[] = BP . DS . 'lib';

to this:

$paths[] = BP . DS . 'app' . DS . 'code' . DS . 'lib';

Final Step before getting all prepared for the Magento Installation

Changing Permissions for the Magento Folder

to 777 during installation and 755 after installation.

if you are running locally for the first time and you are new to this environment be careful about SELinux, you can disable it temporarily using

echo 0 >/selinux/enforce

Now you should be up and running ! You can proceed with the configuration. You will need to create a database and a user for Magento. you can follow installation guide or resources on the Internet for that, it’s easily available.

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• To allow your users, subscribers, etc.  to upload medias (images, videos, documents, sounds) and insert them in their posts/pages for share,
• Or, to let some plugins work properly

you need to set permissions for some folders (ex. “UPLOADS” folder commonly in your “wp-content” folder), to a 777 permission, which means that you allow yourself and the whole world to read, write and execute anything in these folders and usually its subfolders. This opens a vulnerability hole to some malicious users to inject and execute scripts in this directory and gain access of the back office resources of your website which can be very dangerous.

Browsing the web looking for the best solution to fix this problem relatively to folders with 777 permissions, I found that the best referential is the page of codex in wordpress platform that you can be found here.

To make it easy and quick for some users, you can find out here our recommendations:

• If the folder is meant to serve documents or Medias only and no scripts are needed there you can simply denies all scripts access in that folder/sub folders using the following script that needs to be added or written in you access file in that folder commonly .htaccess which is a file that allows to write some specific access rules for a given folder and its sub directories. The Steps are :

• If no access file is present in that folder, create one and call it “.htaccess”. If you are a windows user you can’t create a file without name so you have to create a file called “htaccess.txt” for example, upload it and then rename it to “.htaccess”. If any access file is present in that folder, BACKUP it first before any changes.
• Download and edit the access file (usually .htaccess).
• Add the following piece of script in it that will deny access to any file type other then which is written below:
order deny,allow
deny from all
• Upload the modified file

If the folder is a plugin folder for example and scripts needs to be executed from there, execution requests usually comes only from the server that is hosting these plugins and it’s considered a local request. Remote requests can be for example direct accesses to the file via internet browser, software or through another website. To deny access to file though remote requests or connections, we strongly recommend you to put the permission rights to “755″ right after that the action, that needed a “777″ permission, is done. If your plugin still needs the permission to work properly then we invite you to tweak your .htaccess file accordingly to what applies in the cases described here.

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I tried first to find out why I was unable to unload the module while I thought that using the function unload() will automatically destroy and remove everything related to that module. During my searches I found some very interesting articles, the best that helped me out is the one published by Alex Harui here. The problem I got is that these modules contains Papervision 3D Scenes and Objects that the function module.unload() can’t automatically delete. To be able to do it, I needed first to clean the Papervision 3D scenes, remove the objects holding these scenes and then, when all is done, unload the module.

After understanding the importance of cleaning out the Papervision 3D related objects, I searched the net to find out what can be the best way to do it and I have been inspired by the demo made by ultra-web here about destroyable  PV3D Objects. I found it interesting but I didn’t like too much the Idea of tweaking PV3D classes while it can be problematic when I may want to update the Papervision 3D Library later.

My last reference to sort out the problem was the book of Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder called Papervision 3D Essentials first published in September 2009 by Packt Publishing LTD. In Chapter 13, Optimizing Performance, page 384. he gave the best way, I think, to remove such problematic Papervision related objects which is :

• to remove primitives (plans, cubes, spheres, etc.) from the scene, using removeChild() Method, exemple:
  myScene.removeChild(myPapervisionObject);
• then, destroy their materials
  myPapervisionObject.material.destroy();
• then, set them to null
  myPapervisionObject = null;

That was the best way to unload the Papervision 3D Objects. I just ensured then to remove all objects from the module and used, for that, an Event dispatched when all operations done to main application informing it that it can unload the module.

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You can start using it now on our website  REQFORM.com (actually in french Only).

You can test it using :

login :  test      /      password : test

Features :

• Get all your requests sent or received in one interface.
• You can check which ones have been seen, confirmed, finished or closed by your customer/supplier
• Fully customizable list of tasks/services offered
• Email notifications when your supplier or customer send you a request or when the status of a request that concerns you has changed
• User management that allows your employees/colleagues to send their requests directly to the supplier when they needs to do it and then get their requests fulfilled as quickly as possible.
• in the same way, the administrators can assign tasks to user so that they can be in charge of realizing the customers requests.
• On-line registration
• Invite users/companies to use the system On-line.

This solution is actually in beta version and can be updated to meet your needs.

This component can help you:

• To better present your works with multpile levels of descriptions and interactions
• Make more attractive 3D configurators for your products by presenting them in their real appliance environments
• Calculators of volumes / prices of a selected items in 3D scenes

This component can be integrated easily in moving companies websites and help their customers to calculate the approximative volume of the objects they want to move. The volume calculated can be sent then to any script or link. The design and content of the rooms can be customized to fit the cultural and design of the corresponding country.

Standard Version Features :

• Free Camera Navigation @ 360°
• All items of the scene can be selected and added to volume calculation
• Multiple Scenes / Environments
• Scenes Items characteristics can be easily changed
• Quantities can be changed from selection or from scene and affects directly the calculation of the volume/price

The Professional version is available upon request and can be updated to fit your needs. Please contact us to learn more about it.

A limited demo version here:

Our references:

- DEMECOM : 3D Volume Calculator

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