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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...
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...
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...
I spent some time over probably a period of a year+ trying to figure out why random shortcuts to programs or files kept disappearing on their own in Windows 7. Most annoying when you...
The default indexer in Magento can be quite a time consuming process sometimes, a real time-saver if you have SSH access to your server is to work directly on the command line using the...
Sometimes you may want to extend the title of the category to more than just the name of the category without actually changing the category name (due to navigational elements). For example:- You may...
Quite often, it can prove problematic dealing with large MySQL databases in a web interface such as phpMyAdmin. Working directly on the command line is far quicker and less painful if you’re having to import/export large databases.
The below commands only scrape the surface of managing databases directly on the command line but cover import/export.
Sometimes when you are trying to install an extension in Magento Connect you will see the following error in the terminal window:- Can’t open file package.xml for writing. Permission denied. This just refers to...
Sometimes when you try to install an extension with it’s key in Magento Connect, you may receive the following notice:- INVALID POST DATA This is caused by any index.php RewriteRule’s in your site’s .htaccess,...
Development / Magento / Servers
by Geoff Jackson · Published May 30, 2014 · Last modified December 4, 2015
Please note: Read to the bottom of the article before using any code snippets from this content. Sometimes you may see the following error in red at the top of Magento Connect when logging...
