The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento
We wrote this article in response to postings offering advice to users of Magento, an open source ecommerce system. The advice is being given with good intentions, and the intent is only to assist their fellow Magento users. But the advice being give may actually have the potential cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching system called gzip. What people don’t realize is that their being told to enable two separate caching systems. These two systems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most people see positive results, there are a rare few seeing server side errors, database errors, and are stumped as to why.
Protect Magento Pages
We recently built a site with a wholesale area, utilizing the “Login Only Catalog Extension” and the “Customer Activation Extension”. While this did protect our wholesale inventory from prying eyes, it still left a few pages visible to the general public. Fortunately we found a fix that addressed this issue, and allowed us to secure the rest of the site, in a manor that was intuitive, and easy to implement.
Enabling HTML in Magento Terms and Conditions
We’ve recently been working with a new E-commerce platform called Magento. Its a very powerful open source product, with tons of features, and open source goodness. We recently ran into an issue where we needed to enable HTML content in the “Terms and Conditions”. The fix was actually quite simple.
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