Magento critical security patch SUPEE-5994 ftp install without SSH

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…

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…

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…

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 ->…

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…

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