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Month: March 2012

26 Mar

Stop Magento Permissions Errors ... Permanently

Posted on 26th March 201221st October 2015By Benjamin L.Leave a comment on Stop Magento Permissions Errors ... Permanently
Stop Magento Permissions Errors ... Permanently

When working with customers not hosting with Sonassi Hosting, we continually run into the same permissions errors - along with the rest of the Magento using world. This isn't an issue if PHP runs as the same user as your … Continue reading

24 Mar

Helping the world, one question at a time

Posted on 24th March 20128th September 2015By Benjamin L.2 Comments on Helping the world, one question at a time
Helping the world, one question at a time

We've been on a big push recently in the office to try and make a determined effort to share our knowledge and ultimately help people make the right decisions. So over the past couple of weeks, we have been heavily … Continue reading

24 Mar

A Poor Mans Staging/Live with WordPress and Rsync

Posted on 24th March 201221st October 2015By Benjamin L.Leave a comment on A Poor Mans Staging/Live with WordPress and Rsync
A Poor Mans Staging/Live with WordPress and Rsync

Firstly, this isn't meant to be a serious contender for 'proper' version control, Eg. Subversion or Git, or anything of the kind. But instead just a nice little way of managing a WordPress staging and live site, so that you … Continue reading

24 Mar

Magento HTTPS Redirect Loop

Posted on 24th March 201221st October 2015By Benjamin L.9 Comments on Magento HTTPS Redirect Loop
Magento HTTPS Redirect Loop

So you've enabled HTTPS in your store and suddenly you are faced with a redirect loop. In Magento versions prior to 1.6.2.0, Magento was only capable of checking the Apache $_SERVER['HTTPS'] variable. In ./lib/Zend/Controller/Request/Http.php the HTTPS sanity check would observe … Continue reading

8 Mar

Why shouldn't I use Nginx for Magento

Posted on 8th March 201216th September 2015By Benjamin L.46 Comments on Why shouldn't I use Nginx for Magento
Why shouldn't I use Nginx for Magento

We are going to give you a loose analogy – a (Magento) fast-food restaurant. The cast The customer (at the drive-through), is the customer on your web store. The till operator (who sits on a chair and hands you the … Continue reading

8 Mar

What is Memcache actually caching in Magento

Posted on 8th March 2012By Benjamin L.4 Comments on What is Memcache actually caching in Magento
What is Memcache actually caching in Magento

Your Memcache configuration in ./app/etc/local/xml will dictate what Memcache is actually caching. If you are only using a the single-level cache (without <slow_backend>), then Magento will store its cache (in its entirety) in Memcache. **HOWEVER** without the <slow_backend> defined - … Continue reading

8 Mar

Secure your Magento Admin

Posted on 8th March 2012By Benjamin L.2 Comments on Secure your Magento Admin
Secure your Magento Admin

Changing the URL for your Magento admin isn't really a way to protect your store; security through obscurity isn't security at all. Fortunately, there is a nice simple modification that you can make to your .htaccess file to protect certain … Continue reading

7 Mar

Enourmous Magento sales_flat_quote* tables

Posted on 7th March 201216th September 2015By Benjamin L.12 Comments on Enourmous Magento sales_flat_quote* tables
Enourmous Magento sales_flat_quote* tables

Recently, we have run into a few stores where the sales quote tables have grown beyond all proportion and resulted in the store grinding to a halt. The worst that we have seen so far is a Magento Enterprise installation … Continue reading

7 Mar

Staging / Development / Live SVN with Magento

Posted on 7th March 2012By Benjamin L.4 Comments on Staging / Development / Live SVN with Magento
Staging / Development / Live SVN with Magento

Whether you are making £10 per hour, or £100,000 per hour - making adjustments to your live site is a practice best avoided. Whenever we start work on a new site, the first thing we do is set up an … Continue reading

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