The following day I attempted to login to the Magento admin area only to be presented with a 404 error!  Geez, what a pain.

After doing a bit of forum bashing I found the solution I was after:-

http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/37202/P30/#t121336

For those with the same problem as mine… (can’t login after upgrade, and don’t have ssh capabilities,) I have found a workaround. It worked for me, but I can’t guarantee it will work for you, so proceed at your own risk. I am not the most tech-saavy guy, I just figured it out by looking at the error.

1.)The first thing to do is download the entire magento 1.3 package. Unzip it, and go into Magento->app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model->Url.php Grab the Url.php file.

2.)Go to your server, and into your directory where you have magento installed. go to app->code->core->Mage->Adminhtml->Model and replace the Url.php file.

3. Clear the cache in your browser and try logging in again.

4. At this point, if you were able to get in, I suggest that you go to magento connect and properly upgrade. Worked for me. I hope it works for you.

- T. Foteh
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After following these steps I was able to login without a problem. -phew-

Then, to top it off the dropdown menus were not working in the admin area!  Checking Firebug I found this was due to the javascripts 404-ing.  Another dose of forum searching it was apparent that this was a common problem (I had experienced it before myself) the /js folder and contents had the wrong permissions following the upgrade.

I opened FireFTP logged into the site and changed the permissions on the /js folder and all it’s contents to 755.  This has sorted that problem, so I’m happy now.

All in all it looks like these problems I encountered after the upgrade are now sorted, let’s hope that’s the last of them and the next upgrade will go smoother.

Now to install Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/ Including the Sample Data pack.

Note: Ensure to install the Sample Data pack before performing the installation of Magento itself.

Download both the ‘Sample Data’ pack and ‘Magento’, save these somewhere, decide where you want your new ecommerce shop to be installed, I’m going to install it here: http://www.project.dev/magento/

Unpack magento-1.0.19870.zip into D:\websites\project\htdocs seeing as the zip file contains the \magento\ folder, the path you’ll end up with is D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento

Unpack magento-sample-data-1.0.19870.zip into D:\websites\project\htdocs this will create a folder called D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento-sample-data-1.0.19870

Now is a good time to create your MySQL database, to do this open http://localhost/ where you should see the WampServer homepage, click ‘phpmyadmin’. Simply create a database by putting your database name ‘magento_sample’ (I decided to call it this so that I can create another called ‘magento_live’ for the real shop data) into the ‘Create new database’ field, leave all the defaults and click ‘Create’, you’ll notice the database name appear in the left column.

Installing Sample Data Archive for Magento 1.0.19870

Click ‘magento_sample’ in the left column then click the ‘Import’ tab at the top.

Browse for the sample data file, located D:\websites\project\htdocs\magento-sample-data-1.0.19870\magento_sample_data_for_1.0.19870.sql. Leave the defaults and click ‘Go’ at the bottom right. You’ll now be importing the sample data and it’ll take a little while. Once complete there’ll be a long list of database tables in the left column.

Configure WampServer Apache modules and PHP extensions

Before installing Magento ensure you complete the following:-

Click on the WampServer icon in the system tray

‘Apache’ -> ‘Apache Modules’ tick ‘rewrite_module’
‘PHP’ -> ‘PHP Extensions’ tick ‘php_curl’
‘PHP’ -> ‘PHP Extensions’ tick ‘php_mcrypt’

Now browse to http://www.project.dev/magento/ you should now see the first page of the Magento installation procedure.

Follow the installation procedure, changing the location, time zone, currency to your requirements. When you’re presented with the database configuration page, simply enter ‘magento_sample’ into the database field and proceed. (this is assuming that your MySQL user is ‘root’ and your password is blank).

Let me know how it goes.