Nov 16, 2010 ·
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magento
To try to help clients who are choosing a hosting platform for Magento, we have modified the already available Magento Check script and extended it to also check for optimisation and some other key requirements. you can see the script here: I’m using a snipt rather than pasting the code directly in so that if we update it in future, this post should always contain the latest version.
Nov 15, 2010 ·
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magento
Magento has some great exception logging functionality which is invaluable when trying to figure out why things aren’t working. However, like a lot of settings in Magento, its tucked away in the configuration and its not always easy to remember how to enable it. So here it is: System->Configuration->Developer->Log Settings Once its enabled, the log files will be created in /var/logs/
Nov 15, 2010 ·
1 minute read
php
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 Heres a nice easy one, installing the latest phpMyAdmin directly using SSH wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/3.3.8/phpMyAdmin-3.3.8-all-languages.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phpmyadmin.net%2Fhome_page%2Fdownloads.php&ts=1289829566&use_mirror=heanet" tar -xvf phpMyAdmin-3.3.8-all-languages.tar.gz
Nov 15, 2010 ·
1 minute read
magento
If you are hosting a Magento site on cPanel powered hosting and are relying on the cPanel backup system to manage backing up your files then you need to be aware of this issue. After a recent upgrade, cPanel has started to ignore any code inside a core/ directory when doing backups. Of course this means that your app/code/core folder will not be backed up - of course this is the most crucial folder in your Magento installation.
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Nov 2, 2010 ·
3 minute read
magento
I recently came across a forum post which I would like to quote here as I think it sums things up nicely. You can see the original post here. The Community edition has not been verified as PA-DSS compliant, which is not the same as PCI-DSS compliancy. PCI-DSS is the compliancy of your online environment, practices, software etc. That is the standard that is required to be able to process on-site payments.
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Nov 1, 2010 ·
1 minute read
ecommerce
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 If you are testing out your SagePay integration, you need to be able to input some test card details that the test.sagepay.com system will accept. Here they are: or testing transactions on the Protx test server, use the following card numbers.
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