Holding customers at bay with a Magento queuing system
We're rapidly approaching peak season again and traffic scaling is once again at the top of all Magento store's checklists. There's three ways to help a Magento store cope with high levels of traffic, Add additional hardware (like overflow servers) Optimise Magento store code to perform better Restrict the number of users on the site … Continue reading
Patching SUPEE-10366
SUPEE-10336 is minor update for Magento to address changes in USPS. Where to download Its best downloading the patch from the Magento.com download section - or via MDA - the Magento download tool (this is what this guide will use). Dependencies SUPEE-6237 SUPEE-7616 Applying the patch The application of this patch is relatively straightforward. I'd … Continue reading
Patching Magento SUPEE-10266
SUPEE-10266 is an important security update for Magento to address remote code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Where to download Its best downloading the patch from the Magento.com download section - or via MDA - the Magento download tool (this is what this guide will use). Dependencies SUPEE-9767 Applying the patch The application of this … Continue reading
Combating SPAM user registration on Magento
Table of ContentsIdentifying the attack Traffic by status code Traffic by IP Traffic by user agent Traffic by country code Traffic by URI Enable Bot Protection Enable CAPTCHA Blocking by IP Blocking by User Agent Blocking by Country Code Rate limiting requests Cleaning up created usersThere has been a recent resurgence of Magento SPAM user … Continue reading
Patching SUPEE-9767 v2
SUPEE-9767 v2 is an important security update for Magento to address remote code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities. This patch update provides bug fixes for the latest SUPEE-9767 v1 patch. After releasing SUPEE-9767, several bugs were identified by the Magento community and it lead to Magento correcting these and releasing a new patch to supplement … Continue reading
Using Magento command line download tool
Magento provides downloads at https://magento.com/tech-resources/download - but this resource is both protected by a login wall and not possible to be accessed by command line. A frequent task of any Magento store owner is to be able to quickly and confidently download resources from Magento direct to their store. So that's why we wrote MDA … Continue reading
Magento 1 End of Life? Not any time soon!
We've been fielding many phone calls from merchants and agencies around Magento 1's end of life date and it all circles back to some statements made around Magento 2 and the implication that would have on Magento 1. Too much to read? The official word is that Magento will continue to support Magento 1 for … Continue reading
Patching SUPEE-9767
SUPEE-9767 is an important security update for Magento to address remote code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Magento received reports that customer registration after checkout might fail if option to 'Enable Form Key Validation On Checkout' is enabled. This results in customers not being registered, but checking out as guests. Magento is working on updated … Continue reading
Patching SUPEE-9652
SUPEE-9652 is an important security update for Magento to address a vulnerability in Zend Framework. Where to download Its best downloading the patch from the Magento.com download section - however, you can also use our Magento download mirror if you know the filename you need. Dependencies None. Applying the patch Whilst the application of this … Continue reading
Auto detecting PHP version for CLI
As more customers start to take advantage of both M1 and M2 (and the benefits of running M1 on PHP7), they soon realise the massive potential of native simultaneous multi-PHP support in MageStack. But with great power can come a need to make life easier. Working with Multi PHP Its possible to manually select a … Continue reading