This is mainly for our reference, but anyway, if you forget how to untar a tar file using SSH, the command is:

tar xvf the-filename-you-want-to-untar.tar

That’s it. Big time quicker than uploading the files with your ftp client.

After tons emails about Dr. Web updates, I finally found a solution:

Log in as root (or you can use sudo) and open /etc/drweb/drweb32.ini:

Look for:

CronSummary = Yes

And change it to:

CronSummary = No

Do a restart for the Dr. Web daemon by (add sudo in the beginning if not using root):

/etc/init.d/drwebd restart

Okay, so this may not have anything to do directly with Magento or osCommerce, but indirectly it does. Instead of using ftp to transfer a 700M file from a server to your local machine, we like to use Terminal, Mac’s command line utility. We found this helpful hint for transferring a file [...]]]>

Okay, so this may not have anything to do directly with Magento or osCommerce, but indirectly it does. Instead of using ftp to transfer a 700M file from a server to your local machine, we like to use Terminal, Mac’s command line utility. We found this helpful hint for transferring a file from our web server to our local machine.

Open Terminal, log in if necessary.

type: curl -OL http://www.sitename.com/yourfile.ext

In this case, sitename.com is your url and yourfile.ext is the exact filename. You can also use this with your ip address in case you’ve already changed the DNS, which in our case we had.

Pretty cool tool!

If you have your own server and you are getting failure notice emails from DrWeb Antivirus, you need to make some changes to your settings.

You should change the crontab of the DrWeb update to not mail you in the first place – this will remove all the spam you recieve at every [...]]]>

If you have your own server and you are getting failure notice emails from DrWeb Antivirus, you need to make some changes to your settings.

You should change the crontab of the DrWeb update to not mail you in the first place – this will remove all the spam you recieve at every DrWeb update.

Login to Plesk as Admin.

In the Settings -> Scheduled Tasks -> drweb (just click the link)

You change the Command of the cronjob by adding a “>/dev/null 2>&1″ to the end of command. I.e.

Code:

/opt/drweb/update.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

This will make sure that Crontab does not mail you with the output of the updatescript every time it exits.

Please keep in mind that depending on your OS – for some reason there might also be a crontab entry for the update in your filesystem under

#/etc/cron.d/drweb-update

Where you will also need to edit the commandstring to be “/opt/drweb/update.pl >/dev/null 2>&1″

To find a file on your server using SSH, simply use the “locate” command.

Example: locate fileyouwant.file

This will result in an output of all files on your server with that name

Using SSH to copy a file from one directory to another is done simply with the following command:

cp file.name destination/directory/

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 [...]]]>

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 [...]]]>

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.

If you ever have a need to migrate a website from one server to another, it can be a huge deal, especially when dealing with Magento, which has tens of thousands of files. Also, if your Magento store has many products, you have all those thousands of image files to move too. [...]]]>

If you ever have a need to migrate a website from one server to another, it can be a huge deal, especially when dealing with Magento, which has tens of thousands of files. Also, if your Magento store has many products, you have all those thousands of image files to move too. You could try FTP, but usually our servers hang during a large transfer. Even if you could do it by FTP, it would take hours at best to transfer a complete Magento site.

So here’s how to do a complete site migration using SSH. This can be used for any website you have root access to, not just a Magento site.

1. Login to server 1 via SSH and open the folder which you want to backup. You’ll probably need to login as root user.

Use this commands:

cd /home/somepath/to/yourwebsite/public_html

2. Make a compressed archive out of this folder using the command

Next:

tar -cvf sitepack.tar ./

3. Login to server 2 via SSH and use the command below to fetch the backup from server

wget yourdomain.com/sitepack.tar

4. Now uncompress the archive using the command

tar -xvf sitepack.tar

This is the easiest way we know of to move large websites with tons of files.