Rotating Magento Log Files with Linux logrotate
If you’re running a Magento website on a Linux server, then there is a handy Linux utility which you can use to split your Magento log files located at /var/log depending on a variety...
Author: Geoff Jackson
Host Content In Google Drive & Link To It From Your Website
So for some time now, I’ve been wondering why Google have made it so impossible to just link to files hosted in your Google Drive folders. Simply embedding images on pages of your website...
Grandtotal Calculated Incorrectly Deducting Tax/VAT in Magento
We’ve come across this a few times, and usually we manage to rectify the issue relatively quickly but this time, we spent the last two days debugging this issue. Even reverting/switching themes and rebuilding...
Upgrading PHP 5.3 to 5.4 on CentOs 6
We recently had to upgrade PHP from 5.3 to 5.4 on a CentOs 6.6 build (which by default is packaged with PHP 5.3) and found quite a number of differing tutorials and recommendations on the...
Sublime Text Cheatsheet
Searching To search an entire project:- Where: S:\sites\domain.co.uk To search an entire project and exclude a directory:- Where: S:\sites\live\finishingtouch.co.uk, -*/assets/*
SSH Cheatsheet
Server / Spec Checks Checking the server memory (RAM) consumption:- free -m Checking the server HDD consumption:- df -h Checking the size of each top-level directories from a directory:- du -h –max-depth=1 /path/to/directory/ Checking...
Update Server Time/Date from Linux Command Line (SSH)
Quite often, you’ll notice the time stamp (and maybe even the dates tamp) incorrect on entries in the log which can sometimes prove a frustrating experience trying to identify when exactly various errors occurred....
Force Customers to Only Checkout with Billing Address (Disabling Shipping Address)
Although rare, some eCommerce websites wish to completely remove the ability for a customer to ship to a different address than Magento (i.e force shipping to the billing address). In Magento, the billing address...
Cleanly Delete all Orders, Sales & Customer Data in Magento
Prior to launching a new eCommerce website, at development phase, you’ll always have to carry out testing and this will require creating test orders and customers to ensure that all processes function correctly and as...
Index process is working now. Please try run this process later in Magento
Sometimes you’ll find in Magento that your indexes won’t run and will either be sat in the state of ‘Processing Now’ in Magento or when you try to reindex them, you get the error...
