How To Fix: Magento-Connect Downloader Manager lists no packages
Articles, Magento 1.3.x, Magento 1.4.x, Magento Commerce, Magento Tips, Tricks, and Hacks — August 30, 2010 at 21:40If you navigate to System -> Magento Connect -> Maganeto Connect Manager and find no packages listed similar to that shown in the following screenshot, it means that you’ve not initialised PEAR yet. This can happen if you used the full distribution bundle to install Magento. If you used the ‘Downloader’ option then PEAR will have been initialised and used to download and install the...
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How To Fix: Magento-Connect Downloader Manager lists no packages
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How To Fix: Magento-Connect Downloader Manager lists no packages
If you navigate to System -> Magento Connect -> Maganeto Connect Manager and find no packages listed similar to that shown in the following screenshot, it means that you’ve not initialised PEAR yet. This can happen if you used the full distribution bundle to install Magento. If you used...
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How To Fix: Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone setting
If you try to upgrade Magento using the command line PEAR interface you may encounter the following:
./pear mage-setup
Running initial setup...
Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set()...
August 25th, 2010 | How To Fix | Read More
How To Fix: Failed opening required ‘../magento/downloader/pearlib/php/PEAR.php’
I recently came across the situation where I was no longer unable to access the Magento Connect area of a previously working installation of Magento. After logging in to the backend and going to System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager I got the following error (note: I had “ini_set(‘display_errors’,...
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Magento: Resolving “Invalid mode for clean() method”
After what appeared to be a successful upgrade from 1.3.4.2 to 1.4.1.0 using the command line, I was unable to login to the Admin area. Instead it displayed the following report:
a:5:{i:0;s:31:"Invalid mode for clean() method";i:1;s:2982:"#0 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(532):...
July 21st, 2010 | How To Fix | Read More
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in …/Layout.php on line 529
If you’ve just upgraded your Magento Commerce site to the 1.4.x release from a 1.3.x release, and you forgot to change the theme/template to the default one before you performed the upgrade, you’ll probably end up with a blank white screen.
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Magento: How To Fix “Unable detect system directory: report”
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How To Fix: Magento-Connect Downloader Manager lists no packages
August 30, 2010 21:08
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How To Fix: Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone setting
August 25, 2010 20:08
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How To Fix: Failed opening required ‘../magento/downloader/pearlib/php/PEAR.php’
August 19, 2010 18:08
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Magento: Resolving “Invalid mode for clean() method”
July 21, 2010 20:07
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PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in …/Layout.php on line 529
July 18, 2010 19:07
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