Magento installation error (Exception printing is disabled)

The error message:

There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXTo

resolve the error message you can do the following:





  1. Go to the folder "errors".
  2. Change local.xml.sample to local.xml
  3. As soon as you have the Magento page open you will see a list of error messages, this is the intention.
  4. Open magento/lib/Zend/Backend/File.php and look for the following lines:

    protected $_options = array(
    'cache_dir' => 'null'

    ,


  5. Change this to:

    protected $_options = array

    (


    'cache_dir' => 'tmp/'

    ,


  6. Save this and create the folder tmp in the root folder of Magento.

These were the steps needed, after this it will work.

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