In order to display a "You Save" for "Special Price" products in magento--to make it look similar to amazon's price display--you can do the following:
Copy app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/price.phtml
to
app/design/frontend/default/YOURTEMPLATE/template/catalog/product/price.phtml
Then in price.phtml that you just copied, right above:
tzselectAnswer the 3 locations questions. Then create a symlink to your local time.
rm -rf /etc/localtime
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtimeThe symlink will be according to your time zone--above is just an example.
Now, we check the date and time
dateTime and date should now be properly set.
Internet Explorer "compatibility mode" is that dreadful page icon, inconveniently placed right next to the refresh button/icon.
What it does is turn IE 8 or higher into an outdated browser, so it can properly display really old school websites that were, likely, built using invalid and/or outdated HTML code. It's a horrible feature, that I see no practical use for whatsoever. Plus it's easy to accidentally click it, because it's located a few pixels away from the refresh button--talk about non-intuitive...
Anyhow...
Alright... So APC has been pretty unstable for me on 2 separate servers running PHP 5.3.x and PHP 5.4.x. So I figured I'd give XCache a try after reading about similar problems with APC.
Anyhow...
Get the latest version of XCache from here: http://xcache.lighttpd.net/#Downloads
Latest version at the time of this writing is XCache 3.0.1
Say you have your Drupal's .htaccess set "To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix", and you added a sub-domain, and it came out looking something like http://www.sub.domain.com. So, most people will NOT want the "www" added to the url in this case. So what do you do? Easy.
Use this instead:
cd /usr/local/src wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2 # go here to find the latest version: http://download.osgeo.org/geos/ tar -xvjf geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2 cd geos-3.3.8 ./configure --enable-php && make clean && make make install ldconfig vi /etc/ld.so.conf
Add the following line if it doesn't already exist
Ok... So you decided that it's time to upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. It's not going to be easy, but using Drush will make life a little easier.
What this will do is save you the time of manually upgrading Drupal 6 core and drupal 6 modules to Drupal 7 core and drupal 7 modules. Of course likely your site will be broken after the drush site-upgrade, but at least you have the manual job of searching for upgraded modules taken care of.
So, let's begin...
After you successfully install memcached and pecl/memcached (memcached PHP support), you will next want take full advantage of it by enabling native support for memcached in magento.
NOTE: you must have memcached and pecl/memcached already installed. Otherwise your Magento installation will break if you try following this guide.
Ok... now that the warning is out the way. Here's how we do it...
Edit your local.xml
vi ./app/etc/local.xmlAdd the following between
A how-to on installing memcached with pecl/memcached on Linux.
UPDATE: See below, there's an easier way to do this. Plus DirectAdmin's way doesn't seem to be working through the 'Custom HTTPD Configurations' way.... So, just use the way listed below. It's much easier.
Here's a quick (and hopefully easy) tutorial on how to properly setup Magento with Google Base aka "Google Shopping" or "Google Content" .
I know there is very limited help for Google Base/Shopping for Magento Community Edition 1.6 and 1.7 (and nothing official exists on any lower versions)...
The interested fact is, Magento is knowingly supplying a broken extension with 1.6 and 1.7--i.e. there is no way it will work unless you hack the core code; as we will below.
Hopefully, the community edition will get a working extension soon, just like the Magento Go version.
Anyhow... on to self help!
To install Customers who bought this product also purchased extension for magento 1.6+, we need to apple a few fixes.
1st Fix. This will make this extension 1.5+ compatible.
app/code/local/Jain/Bought/etc/config.xml
cd /usr/local/src mount -o remount,exec,suid /tmp yum install autoconf yum install php-pear yum install php-devel yum install httpd-devel yum install pcre-devel wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC tar xvfz APC-VERSION.tgz cd APC-VERSION phpize whereis php-config
This will give you the location of php-config, which you will put after --with-php-config=
Exim mail queue can get out of control. If your var is on a separate smaller sized partition it can quickly run out of space.
We can see what's using up all that space via:
cd /var du -sh * | sort -n
and as with Exim, our culprit location should be:
/var/spool/exim/input
So to quickly clear out the exim mail queue we do the following:
If your disk is starting to run out of space due to an excess of mysql-bin.XXXXXXXX files here's what to do to fix that.
vi /etc/my.cnf
under 'log-bin=mysql-bin' (the destination could be different in your my.cnf) put:
expire_logs_days = 10
Change 10 to whatever you're comfortable with.
or you can simply disable the binary log files by uncommenting the line:
First we'll need to install Java 1.6 JDK, and be on PHP 5.2 or higher (You can check my PHP installation tutorial here. Also I'm on CentOS.
yum install java-1.6*
We're going to install Apache Solr into /usr/local/share; however you can install it somewhere else if you'd like (e.g. install it in the root dir / )
Ok... let's get right into it...
We'll assume you already have google analytics setup and working with magento...
So... we want to add Google Analytics Goals so we can track what people are doing at the different steps of checkout.
Alright... here we go...
Here is how to use latest version of custombuild 2.0 . The commands for custombuild 2.0 are basically identical to custombuild 1.1 and 1.2, so all this stuff should look familiar.
Notice: At the time of this writing (2012-03-14) custombuild 2.0 doesn't support upgrading from php 5.2 to 5.4. If you're upgrading from php 5.2 to 5.4 please use custombuild 1.2.
cd /usr/local/directadmin wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/2.0/custombuild.tar.gz tar xvzf custombuild.tar.gz cd custombuild ./build
edit options.conf file, selecting whatever you want to upgrade and what version numbers... then run:
./build update_data
If you're trying to reindex data under "Index Management" but can't, do the following to fix the problem...
in SSH.
rm -rf var/locks/*
Now try again, and you should be successful
If that doesn't work, also make sure the var/locks dir is writable.
chmod -R 777 var/locks
If you're looking to place a block anywhere inside your content, simply do the following:
go to /admin/build/block
select the block you want to insert into your content to get the proper block references...
e.g. I created a custom views block called "latest_news" which, if you click it's url looks like:
/admin/build/block/configure/views/latest_news-block
so basically, you'll use "views" at the beginning of the function reference and "latest_news-block" at the end:
So, you're worried about accidentally wiping out your entire system or important directory by doing something like rm -rf / or rm -rf *
with safe-rm , it won't allow you to do that, you'll get something like:
$ rm -rf / Skipping /
Here's how to install:
cd /usr/local/src # get latest version here: http://www.safe-rm.org.nz/ wget http://launchpad.net/safe-rm/trunk/0.8/+download/safe-rm-0.8.tar.gz tar xvfz safe-rm-0.8.tar.gz cd safe-rm-0.8 # find out your $PATH; echo $PATH # most systems should include /usr/local/bin, if not then select any other listed cp /bin/rm /usr/local/bin/rm mv /bin/rm /bin/rm-01 cp safe-rm /bin/rm vi /etc/safe-rm.conf
If you did TOP in ssh, and noticed httpd process has a high cpu load, and has been running for a long time (e.g. over 5 minutes) then you might try lowering your MaxRequestsPerChild.
vi /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
Now change your MaxRequestsPerChild from 1000 to 20...
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 5
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 812
MaxClients 812
MaxRequestsPerChild 20
</IfModule>service httpd restart
Here's a code snippet for Drupal to add filefield data to any node or block.
Basically this is used to pull information from a CCK filefield.
As many magento users will know, Magento is no fun to work with-- mainly due to poor community support (the developers help paying customers; i.e. Magento Enterprise ... Only payed support there... Great for business but bad for the average or beginning user...)
Anyhow...
So here's how we do it.
If you recently tried installing a 3TB Hard Drive you'll notice that only about 1/3 of the drive is recognized by Windows. The fix is quite simple:
1. Download NVIDIA nForce Drivers 15.58 or later
2. Install the NVIDIA NFORCE 15.58 drivers and reboot your system after the install is done.
3. You're done. Your PC should be able to see the entire 3TB drive (it should be around 2.72TB)
So... Here I was playing sets on my new Traktor S4 on my 2010 iMac, and noticed that Traktor was acting weird--comments were getting erased, ratings were disappearing, play counts weren't being kept. In other words,Traktor's explorer worked on some files and not others.
I tried changing file permissions, reinstalling Traktor, etc... nothing solved the problem... Doing research didn't show me any concrete solutions (e.g. change the play count settings; this didn't work).
Then it occurred to me, I haven't defragmented my Windows PC in over 2 months. And a few weeks before, I had my windows PC sync all my mp3 files to my iMac.
So long story short, the mp3 files were messed up ("garbage at the end of file")...
Multiple Table Rates (aka multipletablerates) was a very popular extension in the magento 1.3 and earlier days... However, after several magento versions this extension basically became completely unstable/buggy (this is normal as it only lists magento 1.1 compatability)... Even so, it still worked on magento 1.3 with a few minor bugs... Then later down the road other extensions came up (mostly paid) that provided similar functionality, plus some, and minus the bugs...
Magento's "Catalog Price Rules" was always a buggy experience, ever since magento 1.3... I don't know what's going with the development, but it's still buggy up to 1.4.1 ...
So here are a couple of fixes I found.
Magento 1.4.0.1:
source: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/194930/#t245120
1. Open up Observer.php in /app/code/core/Mage/CatalogRule/Model/
2. Find the dailyCatalogUpdate() method
3. At the end of the method, before “return $this;”, add:
$this->applyAllRules( $this );
4. (Not sure if this step is necessary) Open up /app/code/core/Mage/CatalogRule/etc/config.xml
5. Find the crontab > jobs > catalogrule_apply_all area
6. Change
<cron_expr>0 1 * * *</cron_expr>
/usr/bin/mysqlcheck --repair --all-databases --password/usr/bin/mysqlcheck --optimize --all-databases --password=xxxxxx