I’ve got a copy of Joomla! 1.5 on my localhost which I downloaded and installed yesterday using XAMPP to run Apache and MySQL. I spent some time yesterday building the basic structure of a new test website on my localhost and everything was fine until I tried to access it this morning. When I tried [ Read More ]
This article is designed to evaluate the features of and differences (good and bad) between CRE Loaded 6.4 and X-Cart 4.3 in terms of finding products in their respective admin back-ends. The specific versions tested were CRE Loaded 6.4.1 and X-Cart 4.3.2. There are many things that are of importance when choosing your preferred shopping [ Read More ]
When you create a domain in cPanel’s WHM, for some reason the default setting does not add DomainKeys or SPF records to your DNS Zone, which means that when you send email, it is likely to go straight to the junk-box, if delivered at all. A simple way to reduce the likelihood of your email [ Read More ]
At some point during your life as a web developer, it will become necessary to execute commands via SSH. Now, SSH isn’t that complicated to get to grips with, but if you don’t use it all the time, chances are you’ll forget some of the most basic (and useful) commands, so I’ve listed the ones [ Read More ]
I ran an update via Magento Connect and it messed up the whole site. I couldn’t access the frontend or backend – All I got was a White Screen Of Death on the homepage and a call to an undefined function in one or two of the PHP files, which, when fixed resulted in being [ Read More ]
If you’re new to Magento and are struggling to work out where everything is, one of the first things you’ll want to be doing on a fresh install is to reindex Magento’s data. Here’s how to do it: From the ‘System’ Menu, locate ‘Index Management’ (see image below): When you reach the Index Management page [ Read More ]
If you’re new to Magento and having trouble locating its’ cache control, here’s how to find it: From the ‘System’ menu, select ‘Cache Management’ (see image below): When Magento’s ‘Cache Management’ page has loaded, click on ‘Flush Magento Cache’ (see image below): Hope that helps!
I encountered this problem when trying to add a product to a fresh Magento 1.4.1 installation: An error occurred while saving the URL rewrite. Now this suggests there’s a problem with your .htaccess file or some setting within Magento’s core that is preventing URL rewrites from happening. It isn’t, though… The Fix: After altering the [ Read More ]
If you are a merchant whose supplying bank for online transactions is Barclays, you will have heard mention of their e-payments system (payment gateway) ePDQ. ePDQ is a payment gateway setup by Barclays to enable online payment processing via your ecommerce website. CRE Loaded doesn’t have native ePDQ functionality and a recent request for a [ Read More ]
When installing Magento, right after I’d uploaded and unpacked the source, I came across a bunch of files and folders that needed to be changed in order to make the installation work smoothly. The easiest and quickest way I found was to use SSH to alter all directory permissions in my Magento root folder to [ Read More ]
