Another Magento critical security patch SUPEE-6285 – install without SSH

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…

I wanted to disallow access to image dir from a browser, rather than put in a black index.html page I found this solution here In the main .htaccess file add the following code, save and upload. Options -Indexes

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 had an issue with the main category and sub category not displaying products when the main category is clicked on, I only got a page with 0 products in category. The solution found here was simple but unbeknown to me: Go to Admin -> Catalog -> Manage Categories -> “Select Category” -> Display Settings ->…

After struggling with finding the correct location of the file to edit I found it here  Find this file in folder via ftp skin/frontend/default/THEMENAME/css/styles.css – my THEMENAME was rwd Search for logo in the file – approx line 3267 and change the max-width and max-height from 300 and 90 to whatever. On my store the logo…