Routing complications at LINX
This issue should be resolved and updates are being tracked on our LINX routing post. It seems that the London Internet Exchange (LINX) are currently experiencing problems. Our connections to LINX are no longer carrying traffic and this is having an impact on some clients who would normally cross LINX to reach us. We do … Continue reading
Random redirect to homepage with Magento
This issue has bobbed its head a few times in various different ways. The example is that a user reaches checkout, my account or an equally session critical area, but instead of reaching the selected page, they are redirected to the homepage. This can be a conversion killer as usually the bug appears most notably … Continue reading
Migrate a Magento store without SSH access
We were recently asked to migrate a store to our Sonassi Hosting platform, but the client did not have SSH access to his previous hosting account. So we quickly knocked up a script to take care of the backup process <?php $xml = simplexml_load_file("app/etc/local.xml"); $db_host = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->host; $db_name = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->dbname; $db_username = (string)$xml->global->resources->default_setup->connection->username; $db_password = … Continue reading
Magento PayPoint/Meta-Charge extension fault and fixes (PayPoint Fastrack 1.3.1)
At a customers request we were given the opportunity to use PayPoint/Meta-Charge as the payment gateway. As an extension already existed there was little point re-inventing the wheel, so we took advantage of PayPoint Fastrack by Deeson Group Ltd. However, after a few days use it was become apparent there was a bug with the … Continue reading
Magento eBay Extension (ESS-UA) bug fixes
We have been working on some mild Magento >< eBay integration using the extension above, but we had run into a few hurdles with the code, so we have improved portions of it. Prices displayed with 4 significant figures, line breaks not displayed in descriptions In the page body, prices were displayed as £18.5000 instead … Continue reading
Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object
Maybe you would be interested in a better way to integrate Magento and WordPress if you are having difficulties with the below. If you are using Lazzymonks WordPress integration extension for Magento and experience the following error, here is the resolve. Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in app/code/community/Mage/Blog/Model/Layouts.php There … Continue reading
We've unbranded the default domain page
Following a recent request from a customer - we have removed all references to Sonassi from the default landing page after you create your new domain, on Sonassi Hosting. From now on, a plain, simple greeting page will kick start your web presence.
Install Magento easier
All our customers should already know we install Magento free of charge on demand, but for those who want to be more self sufficient with their stores, they can use the install script. Log in via SSH as usual and run: # /data/lib/install-magento.sh [syntaxhighlighter]
We've turbocharged your Magento stores!
As our customers will be aware, we are in the middle of a massive system-wide upgrade, moving to an entirely new platform for performance, see www.sonassihosting.com. But we haven't forgotten our current hostees, far from it. Over the past few days, we have been reviewing the types of stores and more importantly, the type of … Continue reading
Sonassi has changed!
Welcome to the new and improved sonassi.com. To focus our attention better, our hosting and development have split into two separate websites. Over the coming weeks, we will be changing a lot about our services to make them more affordable, more streamlined and much faster! Our aim is to become the best Magento development and … Continue reading