Archive: upgrade

If you want to disable Magento's logging functioality (which can cause a lot of issues due to very large tables being generated and the overhead associated with that) then this is a possible solution. You can disable events by putting some special XML in your app/etc/local.xml file. This file does not get touched by upgrades [...]

Magento have just released the latest version of Magento Community Edition: 1.4.2.0 This continues the 1.4 branch of Magento. If you are still running Magento 1.3 or earlier you definitely need to be upgrading onto the 1.4 branch, there are so many improvements. Now that this version has come out there has never been a [...]

If you are running an older version of Magento on your site then it is definitely worth thinking about getting the site upgraded to the latest version of Magento. Upgrading your Magento site means that you will benefit from all the latest features and bug fixes. As Magento is still a relatively new platform, the [...]

So far so good. Hit an issue on one machine that was running both Xubuntu and Ubuntu. Need to remove xubuntu-desktop before doing the upgrade to let it go through properly. PLAIN TEXT CODE: apt-get remove xubuntu-desktop Restart the machine and try the update again, should all go fine More Reading:Ubuntu Git Install 1.7.5 and [...]

If you are using Ubuntu (or probably other versions of linux as well) and the OSE version of Virtualbox, then after upgrading you might find that your virtual machine images no longer run. Don't despair! The solution is really simple. 1. Uninstall VirtualBox OSE 2. Go to the Official VirtualBox Downloads Page and download the [...]

A common mistake made with Magento installations is that the the standard theme (eg default) is customised to suit the look of the site but is still kept in a folder called default. If you do this then whenever you want to upgrade your Magento store, the theme folder will be overwritten causing you all [...]

Upgrading Magento can be a little tricky. I would definitely advise testing out any upgrades on a development copy of your site, not applying updates directly to the live site without testing for problems first. Being such a young platform, Magento is in a phase of rapid development. Inevitably this development will introduce bugs and [...]