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 ]
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 ]
