Magento Paypal IPN error

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

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 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

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 installed a new plugin, went the plugin config page and got a 404 error page.  This is another issue with Magento, you need out of Admin and login again.  Really annoying when you don’t know what is going 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…