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Month: January 2017

Deploying Magento2 – Releasing to Production [3/4]

Deploying Magento2 – Releasing to Production [3/4]

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This post is part of series: History and Overview of Magento2 Deployment Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup (building assets, controlling the deployment) Releasing to Production (delivering code and assets, managing releases) Future Prospect (cloud deployment, artifacts) Recap In the last post Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup we had a look at our Jenkins Build-Pipeline and how to the setup and configuration is done. If you haven’t read it yet you should probably do so before reading this post. The last step in our Build-Pipeline was the actual Deployment…

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Workaround for Magento 2 Issue #5418 – Product Grid does not work after Import

Workaround for Magento 2 Issue #5418 – Product Grid does not work after Import

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The Magento 2 Importer is a simple way to import and update Product Data and many more. Since July 2016, an Import will throw an Exception at the Product Grid. Today, I added a small script as a Workaround, which I want to share. It is actually simple and based on the Yonn-Trimoreau‘s SQL Query. I setup a bashscript, which enters the working dir and executes the query via n98-magerun2. After that, I added a CronJob to call the Script every…

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A framework to prevent invalid stuff in your GIT repository

A framework to prevent invalid stuff in your GIT repository

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The following blog post describes a a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. The described methods adding a comprehensive quality gate to your publishing workflow. If you are using SVN instead of GIT you can skip this blog post 😛 The framework was designed by Yelp three years ago. It brings many pre defined checks designed for a generated GIT pre-commit hook. Most of the checks are made to to run against python files. This is not a blocker…

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Fixing issues after changing product attribute type from varchar to text

Fixing issues after changing product attribute type from varchar to text

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In some cases there is a need to change the backend type of a catalog product attribute from varchar to text. The purpose of this change is to get more than 255 characters space for a string value. In this article I will cover the situation when problems occur after changing the backend type of an attribute. The Problem If the backend type of an attribute is changed, e.g. via install/upgrade script, Magento does not automatically copy and clean up old values….

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PSR-7 Standard – Part 1 – Overview

PSR-7 Standard – Part 1 – Overview

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This post is part of series: Part 1: Overview Part 2: Request and URI Part 3: Response Part 4: File Uploads Part 5: HTTP-Client Part 6: Server Request Part 7: Middleware Part 8: Usage in a Magento module This is the first post of my new PSR-7 series. If you already use PSR-7 in your daily life as programmer you can skip the first part of this post. What is PSR-7? PSR-7 is a standard defined by the PHP-FIG. It don’t like to repeat…

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Solving a 2006 MySQL error connection timeout in Magento1

Solving a 2006 MySQL error connection timeout in Magento1

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In my recent task I was testing a web crawler script which uses Magento database information for the crawling requests. I have encountered the following error: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away’ in lib/Zend/Db/Statement/Pdo.php:228 The Problem This error occured after around 45 minutes of script runtime. The script was written in a way that it was possible that there is no database interaction for a longer period. In consequence to that…

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Deploying Magento2 – Jenkins Build-Pipeline [2/4]

Deploying Magento2 – Jenkins Build-Pipeline [2/4]

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This post is part of series: History and Overview of Magento2 Deployment Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup (building assets, controlling the deployment) Releasing to Production (delivering code and assets, managing releases) Future Prospect (cloud deployment, artifacts) Recap In the post Deploying Magento2 & History / Overview [1/4] we showed an overview of our deployment for Magento2 and this post will go into more detail on what is happing on the Build-Server and how it is done. So to get you up to speed, this is…

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Deploying Magento2 – History & Overview [1/4]

Deploying Magento2 – History & Overview [1/4]

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Quite recently we have updated the deployment of our Magento2 projects to a more flexible and reusable way. Originally I wanted to create one post to present you our deployment setup, the systems involved, the workflow & process and some code that might be interesting. While describing this subject I decided to create a series of posts to cover those parts as it was just getting to extensive for one post. I am planing to cover the following topics in separate posts: History and…

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How to add alternative HTTP headers to Magento 2?

How to add alternative HTTP headers to Magento 2?

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If you have more than one frontend server running in your business, it’s needed to load balance the traffic between the nodes. In this case we have a new instance between the browser and the web-server. Often it’s a system like HAProxy or Varnish. If the load balancer or proxy receives a request from a browser, it forwards it to backend server in the internal network. The IP address of the client is than added to a forward header which contains…

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