How to duplicate magento installation

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In this article I explain how to create a copy of running Magento online shop . One of purposes of having duplicates  is e.g.  the need of developing or test environment. Test are very inmportant in magento. Many people do official Magento upgrades on productive environments and suffer form it.   You don’t need to do… Read more »

Magento 0.9….

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Yesterday I tried Magento again. As I tried it it was a very very slow and buggy CMS. However last days I played with the brand new Version 0.9.17740 of Magento E-Commerce Solution and I was positive impressed. There are only few bugs remained in that late version, even if I was still able to… Read more »

Pligg 9.9.0 Test

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Pligg developers have released version 9.9.0 of Pligg CMS quite months ago. Now a had time to test it. In comparison to my last pligg installation of pligg 9.8.2 this version is more stable. It does not broke pages with PHP errors in the browser on every second click and you get good feeling navigating… Read more »

Pligg 9.8.2

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Pligg engine stands behind of many “voting enabled, social” web2.0 sites, the much known of them is digg.com. Today I tried out the pligg 9.8.2 beta engien, which is the current released version at the moment (except svn of coause). I’m impressed about pligg functions, and configuration posibilities, so i think i can use pligg… Read more »

Magento

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I’ve tried out some of commercial shops and also some open source like osCommerce, but I forgot them when i saw Magento. It does not impress with easy installation or intuitive configuration, or even speed. No, no, that are not advantages of Magento, but at first disadvantages. But nevertheless that osCommers systems captures my primary… Read more »

Good PHP online shop for money

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It is clear that it is nearly impossible to compare the advantages and disadvantages of online shop systems cause that are complex systems with variety of functions, that build for different needs. So this post don’t try to compare all of available online shop products in matrix of functionality (I grant you that it was… Read more »

I was hacked, thank open source

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Maybe you notice the downtime of this site last days. Unfortunately it was hacked by someone for unknown purpose. The attackers uses some exploit in wordpress or some plug in or maybe of k2 theme. Some malfunction of these open source components was used out, so that attacker have added lines like echo passthru($_GET[1]); to… Read more »