Questions tagged [server-setup]
All issues related to LAMP stack for your Magento installation. This can include Apache, Nginx, Lightspeed or any other web server. There is a tag for MySQL so I would reserve those questions for more specific database questions. This can also include vhosts, tuning, tricks and tips.
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Magento change hosting
Today I changed one magento to another server. But I have one problem:
In the new server, all my products have automatically set:
special price to 0.00
all data fields to: 30/11/2000
In categories ...
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Admin 404's after migration, tried every solution I've found with no success
I'm trying to help a friend migrate his magento site to a new host. I exported the DB, zipped the site files and moved everything over. There was a hiccup with the SQL on import, but I found a fix.
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5000 Unique Visitors daily, 3000 return visits so 8000 total visitors daily, 1000 products, which server do i need to make magento fly
searching for the right server to host your magento site is a job in itself, I've been shopping around and some host told me i need minimum these specs on a dedicated server to make it run smooth
2x ...
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Error 404 - Can't access backend after moving to new server
I have moved my website on a new server (domain name is the same). Frontend is working properly but the admin login page gives a 404 Not Found error.
Most posts about this issue suggest the solutions ...
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Magento and Maximum Server Request Server Setting [closed]
I am running Magento CE 1.9. and the configuration of my Group Product pages requires the page to generate 1,000s of request just for one page. That is not gong to change it is the nature of the type ...
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Moving URLs and files on the server: Do I need to change something in the database before the move?
I have purchased some disk space and two domains from my hosting
provider. I am currently not using a dedicated IP + SSL certificate
because I am just testing. In fact both of the following two sites
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Magento PayPal Post Back Bug
Maybe anyone can help solve this issue.
Everything worked fine ages, and yesterday, PayPal post back failed. It stopped updating any statuses.
Log is showing
[postback_to] => https://www.paypal....
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Catch and verify custom parameters at registration
i've added some attributes for each user on my Magento installation.
Each attribute is correctly showed in the registration fields, user can fill them, they're mandatory and they are also validated ...
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any step by step simple procedure to move magento from wamp local to live server [duplicate]
I have developed my store on wampserver local now i want to place my Magento store on live server and i want to know step by step procedure. please guide me that what is better approach
approach1= add ...
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Magento CDN on local server by subdomain
While reading up on some Magento I was again attracked to the following: How can I set-up a Magento CDN on local server by subdomain? [also see attached images]
I am envisioning to set-up cdn....
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Moving to a Load Balanced Environmnet
We currently run magento enterprise on a single EC2 AWS instance with an ELB out front and MySQL RDS. We are looking to move toward a distributed load balanced environment with two magento EC2 ...
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Magento (or Nginx) isn't including index.php for additional stores
Nginx & Magento CE 1.9.0.1
I created an additional store in a sub-directory (e.g. shoes.com/sneakers/). Every link in the main site - shoes.com - works. If I try to visit a CMS page of the shoes....
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Move magento from one url to another
I have developed a site in the url www.example.com/demo on now i want to move the site to www.example.com on the same server what are the steps that are to be taken to move the site on the same server ...
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Magento 1.9 multiple websites on different domains
I read and viewed all things related to multiple websites for Magento, but I still cannot setup properly to handle different domains with different Magento websites.
Could somebody let me know step by ...
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What is a good dedicated server for managing magento store with 500+stores and 1000 products?
I am planning to build a magento installation which will have like 100 multisites at first and then within the next 3 to 5 of months it will reach around 500 sites. Then probably 1000 stores with in ...
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Maintenance Mode
the user document has no information on this. And from what I've read, all you do is create a maintenance.flag file in order to kick the store into maintenance mode in the community edition. Well in ...
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Upgraded server to PHP 5.3.28 and Images stopped working
We upgraded the server to PHP 5.2.28 (Rackspace) and suddenly our full size images stopped working. By stop working I mean it did not render and the page load stopped at the point of the full size ...
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Benchmarking Magento performance between 2 servers
I'm looking at moving a Magento installation between 2 servers, this is in a shared hosting environment hosted by Nexcess.net
In this instance, the site will be moved from a SIP100 server to a SIP200 ...
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Access Magento site from internal IP? [closed]
I have a bit of a strange setup (I think)(I'm fairly new to Magento and webservers). I have Magento installed on a webserver in-house and I want to access it from the LAN IP address rather than having ...
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Invalid URI error after migrating Magento and no underscore in URL
I've migrated my Magento CE 1.7.0.2. to a new domain and have updated the local.xml and core_config_data table, web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url now contain the right urls. (Installation ...
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Weird 500 internal server error
I have a pretty weird error in a Magento setup:
The page loads normally and shows in the browser. However, when I inspect it using firebug, the server returns the page as a server error 500!
This ...
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How to set proper permissions for Magento on server?
I'm getting lot of issues with permissions.
In magento admin panel:
Your web server is configured incorrectly. As a result, configuration files with sensitive information are accessible from the ...
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do I have to pay for a private server to get magento to work?
I'm new to magento and am confused about installing it (community ed.). My web provider (123 reg) are saying I need to buy a virtual private server because the memory requirement needs to be on a ...
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dev site redirects to live [closed]
Any store related url I try to load on the dev site redirects to the live store.
1) dev is on a different server
2) local.xml mysql using new credentials
3) base urls have been changed
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Is Magento the right platform to sell downloadable products
My products are made of multiple files of approx 1GB each. Customers need to be able to download files by using a download manager. Resuming capabilities is a must, together with the possibility to ...
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How to move magento shop to another server
I was having my site in shared hosting, I took the entire backup, its structure is like
addons homedir mysql resellerpackages suspendinfo
bandwidth homedir_paths ...
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What permissions schema should I use when deploying Magento securely?
We run what I feel is pretty standard Magento setup:
Deployed via rsync (it should also be deployable with git pull and scp/SFTP for simpler server configurations and to make developers' lives easier....
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How to solve 502 Bad Gateway with SOAP calls on nginx
A Magento store, running on AWS using nginx for a webserver, has been working in production for a number of weeks. We have an integration with a shipping provider who uses SOAP to do your standard ...
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What are some good hosting strategies for hosting multiple, connected magento websites in multiple locations?
I'm asking this question in the Magento stack because I feel that it is directly related to the Magento setup.
We are using Magento, and we currently have a development environment and a production ...
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cms pages not displaying properly on production website magento 1.8.10 [solved]
I'm having a magento 1.8.10 website on more servers, local, dev, staging and production servers, what I'm experiencing is that I'm trying to display the cms pages into the production website as the ...
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What is the procedure to setup Magento in Amazon web host?
I want to set up my system using Amazon Web Services as a hosting provider. Can anyone help me with the follow:
What is a good starting point for setting up an AWS box?
How can I configure AWS to ...
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Defining better hosting infra [closed]
How can I determine if I should go with LAMP or LEMP (Apache or Nginx)? Considering Magento's software requirements list both.
Should I prefer SSD storage or more RAM?
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How to set a test environment in Magento?
This post is not a question but an experience share.
Sometimes we need to test our Store in live environment with the live database, or be able to show clients how the new version will look like ...
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What is the best way to transfer Magento setup to another folder?
I have Magento in the store/ folder on my server. I want to be able to put it at the root. So that users don't have to see in the URL store/. I have already configured Magento.
So how can I bring my ...
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_setopt()
I'm having quite some troubles hosting my Magento website. I've always ran websites (Joomla, Wordpress) on shared hosting. However, for this Magento website they advised a VPS.
After quite some work (...
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Problems connecting to my Magento OAuth1 [closed]
I am trying to connect my web application to my Magento OAuth1. The problem is when I try the URL //mydomain/store/oauth/initiate I get a page that says: "This webpage is not found" (Error code: ...
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Magento Server Upgrade, SSD or RAM?
I am considering upgrading my current account with my Magento host, but I need some advice about the importance of RAM, or SSD for magento.
My current setup is 2GB RAM / 2 CPUs / 50 Processes, with ...
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Magento setup with RAID10 [closed]
Our dedicated server is running out of disk space and RAM.
We are going to upgrade both.
We currently have a basic RAID setup, two drives, first one writing to second - not sure if that counts as ...
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Installing Magento Community Edition (free version) as two web sites in Apache
I need to install Magento Community Edition (free version) as two web-sites in my web server (Apache 2.2), one MagentoCE with the sample data and one Magento CE without sample data. How to achieve ...
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Is It Worthwhile To Use A Separate MySQL Server?
A similar question turned into opinion soup over here: So maybe there's no 'right' answer to this, but I want to check with the community.
My client is about to launch a TV advert. They are expecting ...
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Why the merge CSS files not populating?
I have recently migrated a Magento website which had been using merge_css_files successfully.
On the new server, however, I cannot get it to work and would very much appreciate any advice on the ...
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How to select a filesystem for Magento?
Assuming Magento is running on Linux, you have a lot of filesystems to choose from. Off the top of my head, there's ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs 3 and 4, and xfs. Searching the web for "Magento ...
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Error installing Magento: Error parsing body - doesn't seem to be a chunked message
I am trying to install Magento and I am getting this error:
The URL "https://something.com/" is not accessible.
Error parsing body - doesn't seem to be a chunked message
Weird because I am on that ...
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Specific hosting options - things to consider
I find many hosting options whether they be cheap cloud options even up to dedicated servers are aimed (or at least that's how I perceive it) at 1-store setups. We currently host 20+ Magento stores ...
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Getting SOAP ERROR in Magento
I am using the Soap api's of the Magento. While using the webservices i am getting the below issue
Fatal error: SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't find
I have made all the extensions enable on the ...
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Not able to edit,add or delete from backend in magento 1.7
I am able login in back-end and every pages are opening properly. The problem is when I edit,delete or add anything from admin,it shows the correct message "The configuration has been saved" but in ...
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What kind of server and setup does Magento CE 1.7 single store need to run efficiently with 400K+ products in DB [duplicate]
CE
400+ SKU's
All simple products (books)
one single image (book vocer)
No need for "compare products"
Low traffic
What about server (hardware and config)?
What about software aid (SOLR, Varnish, etc)...
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Error 500 & dbModel read resource does not implement Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract
I am trying to move my website(-s) to a new server. On my old server, Magento and Database were on the same box. This Magento installation Serves two Stores.
I bought two new servers one for the DB ...
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