You have transferred your Magento Site from one server to other and finished with all the settings and database connection. But still now, your site is redirecting back to your old hosting URL ? Ok, here is the fix for that : While you transfer files to from server to other, normally, the .htaccess file doesnt get copied. So, just copy the .htaccess file and upload to your new hosting root folder and thats it. Then goto your database and check the core_config_data table. You will see columns like web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url . Edit them and make sure, those 2 are pointing to your new domain. There are around 4 You should have the...

It has surely been a pain to have such a nice eCommerce platform, but with slow page loading problem. It mainly happens for the javascript and css and all files being loaded at the same time. As Yahoo YSlow says, the more number of HTTP requests, more slow is the website. So, here is a small htaccess trick, which makes the Magento Site real FAST!!  We are enabling the GZip Compression here. Works perfect and has been tested.. Just goto your site root and find the .htaccess file. Open it and edit it on your text editor. You will find this code there, around Line 77 - 97, [php]## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip # Insert filter...

Hi, if you are using Magento and your store urls are looking this way, http://www.soamjena.com/index.php/flavoured-condoms/moods-for-men.html So, you must be looking , how to remove that index.php from the middle, as thats not good for Search Engine Indexing at all. So, here is the trick. 1. Goto your site root folder and you can find the .htaccess file. Just edit that. Open it on a text editor and find this line,  #Rewrite Base /magento/ . Just replace it with Rewrite Base / . 2. Then goto your Admin Panel and enable the Web Server Rewrites. You can find it at System > Configuration > Web > Search Engine Optimization. 3. Then goto your Cache...