Long time not playing with Magento and trying to install magento on my XAMPP 1.7.3 with unchanged php.ini. Installing Magento on XAMPP bit tricky and needs to add system wide changes let’s say hosts on your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. In Linux kernel based OS this thing is easy like Sunday morning; sudo pico /etc/hosts.

What you gonna do to install magento on your Windows XP and above version? This following step that I was doing for Magento installation.

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I was run my website using BlogEngine.Net and now using wordpress as mention before I was trying importing my old blog entries using BlogML. My old website using URL rewriter like blogengine supported and all ended with .aspx. This will add error to Google Webmaster tools as 404 a.k.a Not Found.

There’s so many link back to old URI and I think to redirect automatically. There’s a status code that Google bot understand that the old URI has been invalidated, the famous 301 Permanent Redirect. There’s so many plugin offer redirection and most of all doesn’t fit my needs.

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