I've installed the sample data from the magento site. Then also
installed magento with each mysql table configured to be named
with the magento_ prefix so as to tell the magento system tables
apart from the data tables. But I have the following problem (yes,
I installed the data first, and then magento, so that's not the issue):
The main content area when I http to localhost/magento/index.php
is blank. I don't see any data. I was expecting to see the
Magento sample store with sample category pages etc...
What have I done wrong?
Been having the same problem, it seems that you cannot use a table prefix in your installation if you want the sample data to show up.
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I've been trying to transfer the entire catalog from one Magento server to another and I've been experiencing some significant problems.
I can get most of the catalog data across, but I always end up missing something like product swatches, product categories or a product's custom options. To get these across I then end up building my own scripts that queries Magento, writes the data to a CSV file of my own design, and then write another script that will add this data to the other server.
Ive been asking the other developers in house, and apparently this is how they do every migration. They spend ages building lots of custom scripts just to transfer the catalog across, and apparently the different Magento sites are so different they have to build entirely new scripts when they transfer the next site.
Is this a common experience for everybody?
I feel like there must be a better way. Does anybody know of a better way to transfer the entire catalog (not just the products, but everything) to another server? Can we not just copy across the entire SQL Database?
You can export the products using Magento export wizard by going into System -> import/export ->export
Then from export settings select Entity type Products and Export File Format as CSV
After getting the CSV file you can import the whole catalog using the Magento same wizard or You can use data flow.
The other option around to import bigger catalogs in Magento is to Use Magmi.
http://wiki.magmi.org/index.php?title=Magmi_Wiki
I hope this will help
There are many ways you can migrate your magento store from one server to another.
If you want to transfer complete magento site, then you should try with database import/export. Its easy and fast process. You can follow Site Ground tutorial for this
If you want to transfer only data such as product, catalog, customers, orders etc, then you can try magmi importer its easy and fast for importing data. Also you can try magento data flow profiles as well.
I am working on magento 1.9 version.I want to add a custom image field in drop down of custom options.
I added a text field using following guide
http://magento.ikantam.com/qa/how-add-custom-attributes-custom-options
which is working fine.but when I add a file field then it shows in admin but not save image field value in database.
please help me to solve this.
Neeraj,
Did you specifically click "flush cache storage" By following this guide and adding new tables directly to the database, Magento already has this record in cache. By flushing cache storage, you will allow magento to recognize the new structure and be able to save the record. I have accidentally forgotten to do this quite a few times and you end up with the inability to save a record even though your structure is there.
This might be a basic question, I'm still relatively new to Magento. I have 2 store views in a magento project. 1 for English (default) and 1 for Japanese. While working with both store views, I noticed how if for example I switch to the Japanese store view, if I redirected to a different page or content on the store, the language goes back to English. How do I prevent the website from going back to the default language every time I change categories/catalogs?
That is all about Magento Admin setting. While creating Content Pages/Categories/products, there is a option that ask to choose Store View.
You can add content for Cateogries/Product/CMS Pages for each locale. If it is done then you'll be able to see your site content on the basis of current locale. Hence you need to go through Magento Admin first.
Hope it will work for you. Please let me know if any issue.
Managing contents in multilingual stores in Magento is easy.
Edit/Create Product/Category/Page/Static blocks according to need storeview and put content according to languages in that.
Now access pages by store code, if we are using that.
In some case we don't find the heading names according to languages so just enable inline translater from admin and do translation specific to store/website.
To run Magento store using urls we have both options index.php modifiction and using .htaccess using website and store codes.
On running Magento multisite , multistore. We generally face the common urls for media, js and other resources we should use symlink to increase SEO ranking and score.
Please feel free to contact.
Install your language package.
Create products, categories, pages, and static blocks on the basis of your selected language.
Sometimes translation does not work for few words. In those cases, Inline translation from admin will help you.
Managing content according to store view is very easy.
follow up below steps for managing content according to Store view.
Edit your product or category or your page and static block etc.
after that you can see store select left side in product and category and on page you can see feild below url in static block also. select your store view.
whater ever you want to change or edit please do according to you.
After that save it will apear only on your selected store.
Note: if you not edit any fild by store then it will show default store contents.
I have a broken site and i want to clean install magento but i want to keep using my old catalog and products. Is it possible to extract and populate catalog from old db to new. please let me know how and which folder to copy.
Edit : I am not a expert in php mvc or magento so i wont dive into code as i have some frontcontroller error saying about the router reach 100 etc
Magento offers a "repair"-Tool for the Database, if your site is broken, tell us WHAT is broken? Is it the DB or did you screw up with code? None the less, its not easy backing up the catalog due to the EAV Model. If you have access to the backend try exporting your catalog as csv and reimport it again.
But to be honest: If your db is broken try to fix it, if your code is broken, try to find out what is broken and then come back again
working with Magento 1.5.1 my grouped products don't show their associated products in the frontend (the list with their prices), however everything is fine on the backend and the other type of products (Simple and configurable) are ok in frontend.
It just don't load the grouped.phtml file, how could I debug the page loading process ? or even better, any ideas how to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance
The problem was an extension that overwrites the grouped product generation file and it created a conflict.
After commenting a code line in its .xml, everything's back to normal.