September 2014 | Sonassi

Block by IP

Sometimes, your site may fall victim to an overly aggressive or problematic user. Blocking access to your server for these is very straightforward, with a simple edit to your domain's ___general/example.com.conf file Eg. To block the IP 192.168.1.1 deny 192.168.1.1; … Continue reading

Implementing If-Modified-Since

Table of ContentsAdvanced Configuration Easy Configuration NotesFor static content, the expires headers are set by default in MageStack. They can be overridden using either the native Nginx expires directive, or the more powerful $magestack_cache_lifetime (see Controlling Varnish cacheable content. For … Continue reading

Fix for "No search results" after CLI reindex on Magento Enterprise (SOLR)

Edit shell/abstract.php and add Mage::app()->addEventArea('adminhtml'); public function __construct() { if ($this->_includeMage) { require_once $this->_getRootPath() . 'app' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Mage.php'; Mage::app($this->_appCode, $this->_appType); + Mage::app()->addEventArea('adminhtml'); } $this->_applyPhpVariables(); $this->_parseArgs(); $this->_construct(); $this->_validate(); $this->_showHelp(); }

Block by User Agent

Sometimes, your site may fall victim to an overly aggressive or problematic crawl bot. Blocking access to your server for these is very straightforward, with a simple edit to your domain's ___general/example.com.conf file Eg. To block the Yandex crawl bot … Continue reading