Magento: “Fatal error: U...

That’s a known bug and is present in Magento since version 1.1.2 and still isn’t fixed. The solution is quite easy and takes less than 5 minutes :) Simply edit the following file using cpanel’s file manager: app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php in it around line 558, you should find the following: $id = $this->_currentStore; which is the culprit. The solution is to chnage this...

Unable to upload product i...

This is a very rare bug and the chance to experience this problem isn’t very big, but I hope it will save the hair pulling for someone :) The problem manifests itself in products -> edit -> images. There, when you click on the “Browse” button to locate the image on your local PC, nothing happens and the browse window doesn’t appear. It only happens when using Windows (Mac...

Magento error — Noti...

This will most likely occur when migrating Magento from one host to another. The fix, while not so obvious and easy t find turned out to be quite easy ;)  During the installation, Magento sets two IDs to 0 in its database. However, when importing the database dump to your new host, MySQL doesn’t like this and changes these ID’s to 2, which of course is not what Magento needs to load, thus...

Magento ‘404 error: ...

The resons for this issue can be quite a few. The issue itself however has the same root in most of the cases. If this error appears, chances are you will nor have access to magento’s admin area either, so reverting the changes which lead to the problem is out of the question. This is literally a 2 minute fix and is quite easy for everyone. Simply open Magento’s index.php file for editing...

How to create a file of ar...

Sometimes you might need to test certain functionality of a file system, e.g. if quotas are reported correctly. For this purpose you might want to upload a file on the server in specified size. You can easily create such a file using the command below: dd if=/dev/zero of=filename bs=1024 count=1048576 if – input file of – output file or the file to be created bs – block size in bytes count...

Types of DNS records...

If you have a website and often communicate with your host’s support/sales team, I bet you’ve been told at lest once to change some records for your domain. Since not many of you are familiar with the DNS system, I will try to briefly explain some common records, which you will most likely have/use for your hosting account. The most common types of DNS records, most of which every domain...