How to duplicate magento installation

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 [...]


Found solution for Magento – “SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error” on installation

I wrote already in the past about eCommerce System. I play with Magento till now from time to time. Unfortunately I had some problems with the installation and I could not find  help in the web. Therefore maybe this post  can be useful for some of you how is dealing whis Magento too.
The Problem
Every time [...]


Magento 0.9….

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 [...]


Magento

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 [...]