Month: April 2012

500 Internal Server Error: Mismatch between target GID (XXX) and GID (XXX) of file

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Today (at the time of writing) I tried to install Magento 1.7.0.0 via SSH as ‘root’ user using following bash script: #!/bin/bash wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.0/magento-1.7.0.0.tar.gz wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-1.7.0.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/media/* magento/media/ mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0.sql magento/data.sql mv magento/* magento/.htaccess . chmod -R o+w media mysql -u dbUserName -pdbPass dbName < data.sql chmod o+w …

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Getting super attributes info using raw SQL in Magento

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Introduction While creating a configurable product, you need to create an attribute(s) which will be used as a select option(s) for the customer(For Example Color, Size, etc.). These kinda attributes are called super attributes or configurable attributes. In this article, we will be discussing how to get different info about super attributes using raw SQL. …

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Magento EAV structure & role of eav_attribute’s backend_type field

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Introduction: Magento database is based on EAV(Entity Attribute Value) architecture. And it uses this architecture, especially for categories, products, customers & customer addresses. Before Magento version 1.4.x it used EAV structure for orders as well but thereafter order’s EAV structure has been converted to a flat structure. From the definition of EAV: Entity(E): Entity actually …

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