I want to setup a development environment for the Mage Enabler for WordPress plugin in my new desktop so I downloaded the latest copy of Magento Community Edition which is version 1.6.1.0 at the time of this writing. I used the sample data provided from the Magento download page and used all the default values.

Everything went well during the installation except when I access the frontend (http://localhost/magento) and admin (http://localhost/magento/admin), I was greeted with the default error page like the one below:

The page itself is not helpful so I decided to check the content of the error log (htdocs\magento\var\report) record number 1742231029 which contains the following information:

a:5:{i:0;s:67:"Illegal scheme supplied, only alphanumeric characters are permitted";i:1;s:681:"#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Store.php(712): Zend_Uri::factory('{{base_url}}')
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Front.php(313): Mage_Core_Model_Store->isCurrentlySecure()
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Front.php(161): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->_checkBaseUrl(Object(Mage_Core_Controller_Request_Http))
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\App.php(349): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->dispatch()
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\app\Mage.php(640): Mage_Core_Model_App->run(Array)
#5 C:\xampp\htdocs\magento\index.php(80): Mage::run('', 'store')
#6 {main}";s:3:"url";s:19:"/magento/index.php/";s:11:"script_name";s:18:"/magento/index.php";s:4:"skin";s:7:"default";}

As you can see, the cause of the error is the invalid config data format being passed during the start of a session. To fix this, we need to accomplish these tasks:

1. Allow the admin panel to run on localhost by disabling the domain check.
2. Fix the config data value.

Allow the admin panel to run on localhost.

You will need to follow the instructions in my previous post but instead of using HTTP, you must access the admin page via HTTPS after you applied the code changes.

Fixing the config data value.

Once you are able to access the admin panel using HTTPS, go to System > Configuration > General > Web. Make sure that you supply the proper value for the Base URL on both Unsecure and Secure tabs then save the changes. See my example below:

Clear your browser’s cache and also Magento’s cache by deleting all the contents (not the folder itself) of the cache directory (htdocs\magento\var\cache). At this point, you should be able to access the frontend and admin panel using HTTP protocol.

About the author

Richard Feraro is a PHP Developer living in Manila, Philippines. He has been programming for nine (9) years and working on different open source application mostly done in PHP and MySQL.

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