Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Please change www.yournewdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.
.htaccess method of redirection works on Linux server with Apache Mod-Rewrite rule enabled.

U can protect your Webserver and/or folder with two easy files:
First one called .htaccess and second one contains password is .htpasswd.

.htaccess file example:
AuthName "My Server"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /Server/www/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

.htpasswd file example:
admin:mypa55
your_logon_name:your_password

These two files should be saved on Webserver root and/or in folder you want to protect.

Here are some of the common problems encounters when you tried to install Magento on server running on Windows machine.


The requested URL /install/ was not found on this server.
500 Internal server error.
PHP Extension “mcrypt” must be loaded.
PHP Extension “curl” must be loaded.


1. Go to your httpd.conf file located at your Apache installation directory (e.g.: C:/Apache/Apache/conf)
2. Open file httpd.conf (Notepad, notepad ++, notepad 2)
2. Rename text AccessFileName .htaccess to htaccess.txt

3. Change AllowOverride to “All”

4. Add the following between < IfModule mod_alias.c > and < / IfModule >. Please make sure your path “C:/Apache/Apache/htdocs/magento/” is point to your Magento installation directory

5. Uncomment LoadModule for rewrite_module

6. Uncomment AddModule for rewrite_module.c

7. Uncomment the following extensions

8. Save httpd.conf

9. Go to your Magento installation dir and rename file .htaccess to htaccess.txt
10. Write content below and overwrite file htaccess.txt

11. Copy libmcrypt.dll, libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll and libmysql.dll from PHP root directory (e.g.: C:/PHP) to C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/

4. Run Magento
5. Enjoy! and let me know. THX!

The very best and simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Lytebox was written from the Lightbox class that Lokesh Dhakar (http://www.huddletogether.com) originally wrote. The purpose was to write a self-contained object that eliminated the dependency of prototype.js, effects.js, and scriptaculous.js. Since the original version of Lytebox (which released with iFrame support), major modifications have been made to improve performance as well as “Slideshow” support, “Themes” support, HTML content support (as opposed to just images) and many more configurable options that allow you to customize the look and feel of Lytebox.

http://www.dolem.com/lytebox/

Server2Go has everything you need to get your Web application running

* Apache 1.3.x, 2.0.x and 2.2.x (V1.6.0 of Server2Go or above)
* PHP 5.2.x with a lot of Extensions. Downgrade packages to 4.4.x and 5.0.x available)
* MySQL 5 support
* Perl 5.8 with many CPAN modules integrated\\

Self-Configuration
Server2Go is self-adaptable to the user’s environment:

* Autodetect free ports for Apache and MySQL
* Autodetection of proxy settings
* Server2Go takes care of the correct configuration of Apache, PHP and MySQL depending on the environment

http://www.server2go-web.de/

1. You need to have Java installed on your PC
2. This tool respects sessions, so make sure you are LOGGED OUT of your website BEFORE generating a XML SITEMAP!
3. Go to http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp
4. Add URL of your page and wait for end of process
5. Save your sitemap as XML and/or TXT
6. Upload to your Web Server
7. Let Google, Yahoo,.. know that you have it.
Enjoy!

Look here:
Is it very easy to use:

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml

just paste dynamic url and click on generate. You can also choose from 2 styles of rewriting.

Enjoy!

Just go to the
http://crschmidt.net/services/lynx/
and add your page at the end of the address
e.g.: http://crschmidt.net/services/lynx/jksite.com

enjoy!

Hi Everybody,
I’m searching for free hosting where I can run and test Magento store.
If somebody found some, please let me know. I was searching for some over the internet, but the main problem is with extensions on server.
Magento System Requirements:
o Required extensions:
+ PDO_MySQL
+ simplexml
+ mcrypt
+ hash
+ GD
+ DOM
+ iconv
+ SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used)
o Safe_mode off
o Memory_limit 32M or more
* MySQL:
o 4.1.20 or newer
o InnoDB storage engine
* SSL:
o If HTTPS is used to work in the admin, SSL certificate should be valid. Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported
* Server – hosting – setup:
o Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5
o Ability to override options in .htaccess files
Many thanks!

Hi, my friend asked my to repair his shop because he got problems with his layered navigation in Magento store.
I was searching over the internet and I found one FIX created by Chris McKee.
His script was perfect but some automatic functions were missing, therefore I’ve created this script.
All you need to do is written down, follow my steps to create the layered navigation cache for Magento automatically:

1. go to Magento administration
2. click on the System -> Cache Management
3. scroll down to the Catalog and click on Rebuild Flat Catalog Category and Rebuild Flat Catalog Product –> “Rebuild” buttons.
4. download file magento-lay-nav-cache.zip (4.88kb)
5. unpack it
6. open cache.php with notepad
(notepad2/notepad++)
7. find line 19 and set up your data – connection to your database
$dbhost = ‘localhost’; //database address
$dbuser = ‘user_db’; //name of the user
$dbpass = ‘password’; //password to database
$dbname = ‘database’; //database name
8. upload files to your WEB server
9. run cache.php
( e.g.: www.myshop.com/magento/cache.php)
10. follow the steps on screen
11. at the first – “Delete whole cache”
12. then select your shop from drop down menu and click “Start”
13. if you have troubles with caching, change number of products caching on one page – go to line 39 in cache2.php and change the value $hm = 20; – 20 products per page
14. after all… delete or rename all 3 files!! (somebody could delete your shop items!!)
15. If you want to see all errors – but you don’t need to – go to the cache.php line 17 and comment it
16. let me know the results or proposals ! and enjoy!