Nov 18, 2011 ·
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magento
If you are having an issue with Magento and the optional Merge CSS Files (beta) turned on and it not updating with recent CSS changes, you may appreciate this. Unlike other cached elements that are stored in var/cache, Magento stores the cached and minified CSS files in media/css If you simply delete the contents of this folder, your CSS changes should kick in as Magento is forced to rebuild these files.
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Nov 18, 2011 ·
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linux
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Due to our load-balancing router being a little “harsh” on closing connections that appear to be unused, ssh often sits and hangs. Using a standard ssh config option though we can set a server keep-alive (on the ssh client, which also keeps sshfs alive) In the “~/.ssh/config” file, simply adding the following keeps the connection sending a small packet every 30 seconds :- ServerAliveInterval=30 I’m sure windows clients like puTTY also have a similar option, and on a mac, it should be the same file as Linux.
Nov 14, 2011 ·
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git
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub I needed to quickly generate a deploy folder that included all changes in the last two weeks. Using git and a little bit of bash magic I was able to put together a one liner to do this.
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Nov 14, 2011 ·
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magento
One of the things that can catch you out if you have a paranoid server admin is that various magento extensions will contact external servers (such as SagePay or Mailchimp). If the server admin has blocked outbound web traffic (to avoid DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic), these extensions will slow you down at every step. Simple answer, if you’re running magento, ensure you have outbound traffic enabled. Also, don’t assume that just because you can use lynx, apt-get et al at the command prompt that you can as the web server user.
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Nov 10, 2011 ·
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mysql
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub When migrating one server to another you often hit bumps in the road. Todays was transferring a database from one server to another. During this standard procedure I found that the restored database was missing a few tables.
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Nov 10, 2011 ·
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email
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub The new gmail look certainly makes it look the same as many of Google’s other services, but it’s quite space in efficient by default. Fortunately Google thought of that and made it’s space efficiency configurable!
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