Monthly Archives: December 2010
Upgrading to Magento 1.4.2.0
The latest stable version of magento, version 1.4.2.0, was released on December 8th. Upgrading Magento Community Edition always poses some problem or another, mostly due to user-customized themes and third-party extensions. However, upgrading from a vanilla 1.4.1.x install does generate … Continue reading
Managing hardware RAID with MegaCLI
A guide and a few examples on the usage of the Dell PERC / LSI MegaRaid MegaCLI utility. Continue reading
Building RPMs with mock
mock is tool that builds your RPMs in a chrooted environment which helps make good RPMs. The way most people start out building RPMs is to run rpmbuild -ba on their spec file and hope it builds. While this works … Continue reading
Configuring Memcached in Magento 1.4
In the Magento 1.4 release, the memcached backend configuration has changed. There are now more options listed than in previous Magento versions. Some confusion has resulted in how to configure memcached in this new version as the previous configuration for … Continue reading
Securing Magento File & Directory Permissions
By default most software packages are installed with the most lenient file/directory permissions and ownership. This is normally done for the sake of the software developer given that their software must be installed on a range of diverse systems with … Continue reading
