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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: [code] 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): Zend_Cache::throwException('Invalid mode fo...') #1 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(538): Zend_Cache_Backend_File->_clean('/www/www.solarg...', 'matchingAnyTag', Array) #2 /www/www.yourdomain.com/magento/app/code/core/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php(279):...

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In any normal software development cycle you would design, develop, and test your site on a test/dev web server to ensure all issues are resolved before you upload the new version of the site to your production server.  You should use this approach whether you're making small or large changes to your site as it's easier to find and resolve issues before your customers do!  There's nothing worse than making changes to your live site only to find that the changes break some or all of the site.  If your site is down, you're not making money! So in this post I thought I'd walk you through how to clone...

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This screencast continues the "Installing Magento" series and builds on my previous post/screencasts, 4 ways to create a MySQL Database and User for Magento.  Installing Magento Commerce is fairly straight forward.  I've created a step-by-step video tutorial that should guide you through the process.  The video tutorial is detailed so I had to split it over 3 parts.  I've also documented the procedure below. Installing Magento 1.4 using the full release package - Part 1 Installing Magento 1.4 using the full release package - Part 2 Installing Magento 1.4 using the full release package...

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