Another Magento critical security patch SUPEE-6285 – install without SSH
Another critical patch install click here
Another critical patch install click here
Using the Magento backup tool from within magento 1.9 causes my store to show an internal server error. To reset this I had to change the permissions of the index.php file in the root dir to 644 from 666. It is a known issue. There is an alternative is to upload a php file called…
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction I have been receiving this error for a few days and couldn’t figure out what the problem was. It wouldn’t let me update products and save to SQL. I found this site which gave the following instructions: Login to cpanel and phpMyAdmin, click on…
I was receiving messages from Paypal regarding incorrect IPN setup, This link has a workaround I still seemed to be getting my orders anyway and the orders showed correctly as processing in Magento.
I had issues with a new installation of Magento 1.8.1.0 CE for a test store: Fatal error: Class ‘Zend_Log’ not found in /home/MyStoreName/public_html/shop/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php on line 247 I set up this domain with the minimum package, I changed the package to a larger package from my cpanel reseller hosting control panel and it did the trick. There is another…
I was stressing about my new store install and installing the critical patch, I found this excellent guide and download to patch via FTP. I first tested my site at shoplift.byte.nl and I got the dreaded red warning that my site was vulnerable. I followed the instructions below and made a backup first. Applying Magento patches via…
After moving my Magento 1.9 store to a new host I got the error below and couldn’t fit it: Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. I tried a method mentioned at HostGator (not my host) which required me to navigate to the magento/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php and change a bit of code. Unfortunately, that did not…