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Mar
08
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speed up magento site
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |Tagged in: magento
One of the drawbacks of Magento is currently its speed if default configuration is used. There are certain ways of making it run faster. The best one is to enable GZip compression by changing .htaccess file a little. You just need to uncomment part of the code. In my case, the speed increase was exactly 235%. Let’s start speeding up Magento!
Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file and replace them with the following code.
Sep
04
Magento system requirements
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |Tagged in: magento
How do I know if my server meets these system requirements?
- Supported Operating Systems:
- Linux x86, x86-64
- Supported Web Servers:
- Apache 1.3.x
- Apache 2.0.x
- Apache 2.2.x
- Supported Browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above
- Apple Safari 2.x
- Google Chrome
- Adobe Flash browser plug-in should be installed
- PHP Compatibility:
- 5.2
- Required extensions:
- PDO_MySQL
- simplexml
- mcrypt
- hash
- GD
- DOM
- iconv
- SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used)
- Safe_mode off
- Memory_limit no less than 256Mb (preferably 512)
- MySQL:
- 4.1.20 or newer
- InnoDB storage engine
- SSL:
- If HTTPS is used to work in the admin, SSL certificate should be valid. Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported
- Server - hosting - setup:
- Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5
- Ability to override options in .htaccess files