Setting permissions for MagentoConnect can be a little tricky at times, especially in a production environment. The best, most secure way to go about installing Connect updates is by using Pear.
SSH in to your server, head to the Magento install directory and issue command:
./pear mage-setup .
DON’T forget the trailing . Next install the Connect you [...]

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The easy way to set your MySQL path in Magento is by editing the /app/etc/local.xml file with your new details. A good example when you may need this is if your are migrating Magento across servers.
<default_setup>
<connection>
<host><![CDATA[localhost]]></host>
<username><![CDATA[username]]></username>
<password><![CDATA[password]]></password>
<dbname><![CDATA[database]]></dbname>
<active>1</active>
</connection>
</default_setup>

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You’ll probably know by now that the transactional email templates in Magento are a bit, with respect, “naff”. To edit through the admin will take forever and a day so here’s a couple of useful solutions to help make things easier.
1. Locate the email templates
The Magento email templates are located in (note: “en_US” may change [...]

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Magento permissions can be an absolute pain! Use one of the solutions below to setup Magento permissions easily.
1. SSH Script
#!/bin/bash
find www -name .htaccess -exec chmod 604 {} ;
find www -name *.php -exec chmod 644 {} ;
find www -type d -exec chmod 705 {} ;
2. SSH Command Line
find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; [...]

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If you need to migrate Magento from one server to another here’s how to do it.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
Login to admin panel > System > Configuration > Web and set both the secure and insecure base urls to this:  {{base_url}}
Then change the base url back once migrated across.
BEGIN:

Upload a fresh copy of Magento onto the new [...]

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If you’re wondering if your server is going to support MagentoCommerce then this utility will be of use.
Simply download, extract and upload the magento-check.php file to your server and head to the URL to see if anything needs enabling, upgrading etc.
You can find the full server requirements here.
Download: Magento Requirements Checker

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You may have landed here and ask, what is Magento and what can it do for me? Well here’s a couple of Youtube videos which give a great overview.
Magento - Frontend Tour

Magento - Backend Tour

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Magento templates are split in to two areas:

Directory 1: app/design/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the layout, translation (locale) and template materials.
Directory 2: skin/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the images, CSS and block-specific Javascripts.

You’ll notice the structure in our template .zip files is:

/app/design/frontend/default/template_name
/skin/frontend/default/template_name

To use our Magento Templates you simply need to do the following:

Unzip the downloaded [...]

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For selling products, especially online, one thing is very imporant. Listening to your clients. If you listen to your clients and know exactly what they want, you can target your ecommerce website to their needs and sell more products.
A great way to do this is by using a blog inside your Magento ecommerce store.  Magento [...]

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Magento Designers Guide: Creating Templates
A great video cast which shows how to activate Magento Templates (Themes) has been released by MagentoCommerce which explains how it’s done to the T. As Open Source is more about sharing why re-create the wheel when we can link to the already made Open Source freely available video?
Click here for [...]

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