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

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 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

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…

Another Magento security patch, non SSH install method at Magentry.com

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…