Articles tagged with magento

1. Magento Home Page Returns 404 Status Code

   Posted on December 28, 2015 in System Administration

   Naturally, I ran into this problem in the middle of the night when the client was asleep and I had no access to the Magento administrative interface. The short story is that after running a re-index of the site, the home page began returning a 404 error status. A bit …

2. Redis: Better Session Storage for Magento

   Posted on October 28, 2015 in System Administration

   Out of the box, Magento has four methods available for storing session data: filesystem, database, memcached, and tmpfs. The default method is to store session information in the filesystem. I believe that storing sessions in Redis is actually superior to all of the aforementioned methods. Each of the four default …