Monthly Archives: April 2011

Nexcess Announces UK Magento Hosting Services




Ann Arbor, Michigan U.S.A., April 27, 2011- Nexcess, a Magento Enterprise Hosting Partner, has announced expansion into the UK Magento hosting market.  This effort has been designed to better serve the company’s current and future eCommerce hosting clients by providing … Continue reading

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Useful Apache Rewrite Rules




Apache’s rewrite engine is very powerful and often misunderstood. It can be fairly cryptic to work with and given that a mistake can take down your site it can be costly to debug. While I’ve tested the following rules thoroughly … Continue reading

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Logging Database Queries in Magento




In previous weeks, we’ve covered some debugging tools for both MySQL and PHP that can be very helpful in troubleshooting problems with your LAMP-based web applications. However, there is a little known feature in the Varien library installed with Magento … Continue reading

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Avoid Common Password Pitfalls by Getting Creative




Here at Nexcess, we deal with lots of passwords. Passwords for SSH, passwords for e-mail, passwords for intranet sites, passwords for VPNs. We have passwords that fall within the client realm things like webmail, control panels, e-mail, FTP…the list goes … Continue reading

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Magento Catalog Search XSS on Some Themes




We’ve seen a few customers failing PCI scans due to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the catalogsearch page. Initially it seemed like it was a bug in Magento where it wasn’t sanitizing its input but when we tried to … Continue reading

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