Remove the from_store link when changing store views/languages in Magento

By default, on the store views list (usually for languages), Magento creates links to the different views but it also adds the “from_store” parameter. It seems that SEO guys don’t like this too much. If you need to remove it, search on your theme templates for the “select_language” string. Usually, this is on the header.phtml, but depending on the theme, it can be placed in other places. So you can look for it using grep: Read more…

Migrating Magento from Community to Enterprise Edition

One of my first tasks on my new job is to migrate a Magento Community Edition to the Enterprise one. There is no too much information on the Internet about how to proceed with this kind of task. That’s the reason I write this post. First step: moving the old database The first thing we have to do is to create a backup of our magento community database and create a new database (for example, Read more…

Solve the 404 error on the admin dashboard

When I changed the URI to access to my dashboard, when I logged in again, there was a 404 error on the admin dashboard. It seems is something related to permissions and can be easily solved executing the following commands: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ; chmod o+w var media -R If this doesn’t work, maybe the login form is not redirecting correctly. Read more…