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Magento: “Fatal error: Uncaught exception” erorr when trying to access Magento Connect manager

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...

Unable to upload product images in Magento

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...

Magento error — Notice: Undefined index: 0 in app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Mysql4/Config.php on line 92

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...

Magento ‘404 error: Page not found’ fix

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...

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...

How to make exim send from a new IP

If you need to send lots of e-mail addresses via your Exim MTA, you will most probably want to do so from a new IP address, so you can preserve your main one. Configuring this is as easy as 1-2-3 :) Open exim.conf for editing with your preferred text editor and find the following lines: remote_smtp: ...

Find the full path to a program

Quite often, when you are installing an application on your host, it asks for the full path to a program. Galleries for example, will need the full path to the convert executable of ImageMagick, some e-commerce scripts need the full path to the curl binary, etc. Of course you can always contact your...

cPanel language

As cPanel is the most popular and widely used hosting control panel, I bet you have used it on at least one of your hosts. Since many of you are not native English speakers, the cpanel developers have added soem additional languages, which you can use, to make the job of maintaining your account a bit...

What is .htaccess

This is a file, which all of us, who use cPanel hosting have on our account. Most of you have probably wondered what is this and how do I use it. I will try to explain it below and provide a few usefull examples on how to use its great capabilities. What is the .htaccess? This is a part of the Apache...

301 redirect types

At some point all of us needed to add a redirect of some type to our website. Whether it will be for SEO purposes or to point ur visitors to the new website version, various types of redirects were always needed. All of them will report 301 or 302 HTTP status code to your browser, so no worries about...
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