Archive: server

Often we will be asked to work on a site and have to test backend features but without asking for admin passwords, so we need a way to create admin users without admin access. Of course we already have file and database access. For this, we use phpmyadmin or adminer to give us database access [...]

If you use Netbeans along with Xdebug to facilitate step through debugging when coding PHP then you may come across this issue. It's possible to get it into a semi working scenario where you can have working breakpoints and see variable values but you have no idea which bit of code you are actually stepped [...]

If you are looking to gain the most out of your Magento hosting and to optimise your Magento hosting stack, here are a few top tips that you can try. 1. Ensure Caching is Enabled It may sound obvious, but if you do not have caching enabled then the performance of your Magento store is [...]

Edmonds Commerce have been with Magento since the beginning. If you would like us to optimise your VPS or dedicated server for Magento then please get in touch today. Back then the speed of Magento was one of its main drawbacks. Since that time, the code has improved a lot and things have generally got [...]

If you are trying to get your computer and TV talking to each other over your home network so you can directly play files on the TV over the network then this is for you. Windows 7 has DLNA built in and initially I was booting into that for DLNA services, but the behaviour is [...]

If you get the error: Got error 28 from storage engine query When you are trying to access your web site, database or phpMyAdmin then the problem is likely to be that you have run out of hard disk space. If you have command line access you can quickly check this by running PLAIN TEXT [...]

If your site has suddenly gone down and you are tearing your hair out because the people you usually call for server support aren't answering the phone then fear not - we can help you out. Along with our core business of building, customising and extending e-commerce web sites, we are also pretty handy at [...]

If you have a script that is receiving posted XML for whatever reason and are trying to access this XML without any filtering, escaping etc then this is the solution you are looking for. Instead of trying to access via $_POST etc, you can simply call the following: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $xml = file_get_contents('php://input'); This [...]

If you need to move your osCommerce (and derivatives such as CRE Loaded and Zen Cart) based site to a new server, here is a quick explanation of our approach which enables you to handle the migration without any downtime and no loss of order or customer information despite the fact that in the propagation [...]

If you have some cron jobs set up and you are finding large amounts of files saved in your home directory (or root) then perhaps you have the same issue I had. I was using wget to call on some PHP scripts to run periodically. wget will do what it says on the tin and [...]