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Upgrading to Magento 1.4.1.1 from 1.4.0
I recently had to upgrade an installation of magento 1.4.0 to version 1.4.1.1. As anybody who’s ever tried to upgrade magento will tell you, the upgrade path is usually less than ideal (For some people the only way to upgrade … Continue reading
Puppet: Retrieved certificate does not match private key
I’ve been playing around with puppet recently and while trying to start up a client and get it to talk to the server I ran into this error: err: Could not request certificate: Retrieved certificate does not match private key; … Continue reading
Config cache problems with Magento
After having numerous problems upgrading a Magento site 1.4.1.1 on a test server I decided to try and get it working locally before applying the fix(es) to the live server. This is a fairly simple process and there’s lots of … Continue reading
Can’t connect to remote mysql server with php/apache but can through php/cli
Today at work we were migrating some sites to a new server infrastructure with the different services (i.e. php, mysql, mail) spread over different servers. One problem we ran into whilst setting this up was that php scripts running through … Continue reading
OSCommerce / Paypoint redirects to payment information after paying
I was asked to do some work on an oscommerce site which was accepting payments from paypoint (formally secpay) yet instead of redirecting the user to the “Thank you for your order” page it was sending them to the payment … Continue reading
Updated textarea maxlength with Jquery plugin
When I first wrote the “Textarea maxlength with jQuery” plugin last year I had no idea how popular it would be – over 70% of the visits to my site since then have been people reading that one post. The … Continue reading
Testing Kohana3 with PHPUnit
Unit testing is great, period. It allows you to test different parts of your application independently of the rest of the system. Any changes that will cause problems elsewhere can be identified almost instantly (if you’re doing it right!). Up … Continue reading
How to get Ubuntu to ping a Windows hostname (and vice-versa)
I’m currently running ubuntu server in a virtual machine on my pc, and one of the annoying problems I’ve always had with ubuntu is that it never seems to be able to resolve the hostnames of machines running windows. After a little … Continue reading
Virtualbox – 1 differencing child hard disks
If you’re getting an error along the lines of “{hard disk} cannot be directly attached to the virtual machine because it has 1 differencing child hard disks” Then the solution is to delete the virtual machine (but not the hard … Continue reading
Stretch wallpaper across multiple monitors on Windows
When I first got a second monitor I looked around for quite a while to try and find a solution for stretching a wallpaper across dual monitors – Windows was repeating the first half of the wallpaper on both the … Continue reading