Many people don’t seem to worry about their logs increasing until their site falls over. Probably not too wise…. Here are some things you can do to have a bit of a tidy up: Delete /var/cache occassionally, it does build up rubbish in here, and refreshing from admin doesn’t completely clear it out Check /var/reports […]
Category Archives: Administering Magento
Upgrading Magento to version 1.4 – keeping it simple
I’ve had a few discussions with people now about how to upgrade to Magento 1.4 in the best fashion. Here is my approach, which works well, and I believe provides the cleanest solution. Backup everything! Create a sub-directory called /new on your server Copy 1.4 release to /new Take a copy of the existing 1.3.* […]
A WordPress Blog under Magento
On the webshopapps.com site I wanted to run a wordpress blog in the /blog directory. I didn’t want to integrate the blog into Magento, preferring to keep the 2 applications separate, so this ruled out the blog extension on Magento Connect. My approach was fairly simple. Here is how I achieved it: I created a […]
UPS XML Setup on Magento
Pre-Requisite Get UPS Account – either online or contact your local UPS (as case in UK) Get UPS Login – http://www.ups.com Get Developer Key – Look under Support->Technology Support->UPS Online Tools Get access key – need developer key and Account number for this And then on Magento If using SSL omit step 1 In Ups […]