E-Commerce Development

Many web applications, including Magento need PHP5.2 to function. If your server doesn’t have PHP 5.2, there’s a simple way to upgrade.

Using SSH, logon to your server.

Use these commands:

wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh |sh

yum update php

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a

/etc/init.d/httpd reload

That’s it!

Here’s the SSH command to import a database backup to a new database.

Navigate to the directory where your database copy resides using SSH.

mysql -uusername -p databasename < backupname.sql

You’ll be prompted for the password for the database. Enter that.

If this is a Magento database, it could take awhile to import. Ours is around 600M, so it took awhile.

That’s it.

Part of the transfer or migration of a website many times involves a database. If you are on an “ix” server, SSH is a great way to backup your MySQL database.

Here’s how you do it:

Using SSH, navigate to your httpdocs or public folder on your server where the website resides.

Use the following command.

mysqldump –opt -u theusername -p thedatabasename > /path/to/backupname.sql

This creates a copy of your database.

Now, you can transfer that database backup to your new server.