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Let’s say I have a running Magento installation up and running. I need to install new modules. I’m affraid thtat something blows up the installation and might not be able to roll back efectively due to lack of experience. What would be a good solution. Is it feasible/logical to have an installation cloned to another machine and perform there the installation ?

Is there any extension available through which I can set the booking amount of my products? I have lots of products in my inventory and I want people to pay an upfront amount for booking which will be deducted from the final amount later.
If not then can you suggest me how should I approach this problem?

Hi.. I have an e-commerce business using Magento2 and my main vendors are Amazon & Ebay.. Im having issues tracking the products that I receive, where some arrive without product info leading to having to just store because I don’t have the correct information on which customer the product belongs to.. May you help on how I can improve.. I have thought of linking Amazon SKU number as product barcodes but the product doesn’t arrive with an SKU on the box to help track

Notice “mageplaza_layerednavigation” appears in search results. The issue? Google is scanning the url at the top of the site containing a url such as:

https://example.tld/pub/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/en_US/Mageplaza_LayeredNavigation/js/

File seems to contain a bunch of information. I was able to make the file 404. A lot are still live in Google searches? Is this a problem? Should we be concerned?

Am I crazy or what? so I may be just a few marbles short with my history of cannabinoids usage but that’s not the question here. I want to truly integrate WP and Magento’s latest. The theme, Magento blocks, customers, orders with wp…(postcodes, pages, etc) and it must be SE friendly… big question mark here…

I want to sync users, orders, and any content I plan to publish between the two. I’ve done it before in the past but only used the content published externally. I never integrated users, orders, etc. I want to change this and wonder has anyone else tried, failed, or accomplished such a task? and no I’m not stoned atm 😉

I’m looking to move away from my current hosting company after a year of bad service, human errors, and one data loss event. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting service that you absolutely LOVE right now? I have previously worked with Nexcess, but I want to broaden my search beyond the first page of google.

As the title says I’m trying to track down and fix the product stock alert functionality on a new M2 site (2.4.2). I’m receiving the following when it is run:

[2021-03-04 15:40:02] main.CRITICAL: Required parameter 'theme_dir' was not passed {"report_id":"567cac79916f5e96e5e511defcf48a6e693cbb923b0317e2d97f06788067a911","exception":"[object] (InvalidArgumentException(code: 0): Required parameter 'theme_dir' was not passed at /www/magento2/vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/Fallback/Rule/Simple.php:61)"} 

I’ve checked all public info on this error and most of the time it is due to a theme that was installed and deleted or data not matching in the DB for the theme directory. I’ve checked pretty much all that stuff and cannot seem to track this down…. As far as I can tell all the theme data in the DB and file system is correct.

Also, it is worth noting that when the catalog_product_alert is run, it does set the fields in the DB (visible in admin) to indicate it ran and set it to completed so it acts if it did run and send the email but there are no emails dispatched.

Below is the detailed error report:

{"0":"Required parameter 'theme_dir' was not passed","1":"#1 Magento\Framework\View\Design\Fallback\Rule\Theme->getPatternDirs() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/Fallback/Rule/Composite.php:48]n#2 Magento\Framework\View\Design\Fallback\Rule\Composite->getPatternDirs() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/Fallback/Rule/ModularSwitch.php:50]n#3 Magento\Framework\View\Design\Fallback\Rule\ModularSwitch->getPatternDirs() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/FileResolution/Fallback/Resolver/Simple.php:125]n#4 Magento\Framework\View\Design\FileResolution\Fallback\Resolver\Simple->resolveFile() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/FileResolution/Fallback/Resolver/Simple.php:66]n#5 Magento\Framework\View\Design\FileResolution\Fallback\Resolver\Simple->resolve() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/FileResolution/Fallback/File.php:42]n#6 Magento\Framework\View\Design\FileResolution\Fallback\File->getFile() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Design/FileResolution/Fallback/TemplateFile.php:82]n#7 Magento\Framework\View\Design\FileResolution\Fallback\TemplateFile->getFile() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/FileSystem.php:126]n#8 Magento\Framework\View\FileSystem->getTemplateFileName() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template/File/Resolver.php:60]n#9 Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Resolver->getTemplateFileName() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template.php:224]n#10 Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template->getTemplateFile() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template.php:303]n#11 Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template->_toHtml() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/AbstractBlock.php:1111]n#12 Magento\Framework\View\Element\AbstractBlock->Magento\Framework\View\Element\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/AbstractBlock.php:1115]n#13 Magento\Framework\View\Element\AbstractBlock->_loadCache() called at [vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/AbstractBlock.php:675]n#14 Magento\Framework\View\Element\AbstractBlock->toHtml()n#15 call_user_func_array() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/State.php:187]n#16 Magento\Framework\App\State->emulateAreaCode() called at [vendor/magento/module-product-alert/Model/Email.php:368]n#17 Magento\ProductAlert\Model\Email->send() called at [vendor/magento/module-product-alert/Model/Observer.php:356]n#18 Magento\ProductAlert\Model\Observer->_processStock() called at [vendor/magento/module-product-alert/Model/Observer.php:427]n#19 Magento\ProductAlert\Model\Observer->process()n#20 call_user_func_array() called at [vendor/amasty/cron-scheduler/Controller/Adminhtml/Jobs/Run.php:98]n#21 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run->execute() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:58]n#22 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->___callParent() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:138]n#23 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/Action/Plugin/ActionFlagNoDispatchPlugin.php:51]n#24 Magento\Framework\App\Action\Plugin\ActionFlagNoDispatchPlugin->aroundExecute() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:135]n#25 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:153]n#26 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->___callPlugins() called at [generated/code/Amasty/CronScheduler/Controller/Adminhtml/Jobs/Run/Interceptor.php:23]n#27 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->execute() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/Action/Action.php:111]n#28 Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action->dispatch() called at [vendor/magento/module-backend/App/AbstractAction.php:151]n#29 Magento\Backend\App\AbstractAction->dispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:58]n#30 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->___callParent() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:138]n#31 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/module-backend/App/Action/Plugin/Authentication.php:143]n#32 Magento\Backend\App\Action\Plugin\Authentication->aroundDispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:135]n#33 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:153]n#34 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->___callPlugins() called at [generated/code/Amasty/CronScheduler/Controller/Adminhtml/Jobs/Run/Interceptor.php:32]n#35 Amasty\CronScheduler\Controller\Adminhtml\Jobs\Run\Interceptor->dispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/FrontController.php:186]n#36 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController->processRequest() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/FrontController.php:118]n#37 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController->dispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:58]n#38 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController\Interceptor->___callParent() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:138]n#39 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [app/code/Infortis/Cgen/Plugin/Magento/Framework/App/FrontController.php:32]n#40 Infortis\Cgen\Plugin\Magento\Framework\App\FrontController->aroundDispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:135]n#41 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController\Interceptor->Magento\Framework\Interception\{closure}() called at [vendor/magento/framework/Interception/Interceptor.php:153]n#42 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController\Interceptor->___callPlugins() called at [generated/code/Magento/Framework/App/FrontController/Interceptor.php:23]n#43 Magento\Framework\App\FrontController\Interceptor->dispatch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/Http.php:116]n#44 Magento\Framework\App\Http->launch() called at [vendor/magento/framework/App/Bootstrap.php:263]n#45 Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap->run() called at [pub/index.php:29]n","url":"\/amasty_cronscheduler/jobs/run/id/44/key/0fd29e9b1958b4a2c6aa46c42d1866a762e167016a4fcc5c15b64db9e28e9ed4/","script_name":"/index.php","report_id":"a9db4eb2ff477b8c037eca44dc2e9fc40f85a3bac16c5e82208c44f9847af77a"} 

I’m wondering if anyone can give me some guidance on what else to look for to try to figure this out…

Correct way to go for SSL access to multiple websites is with one SSL for each website or one certificate all websites. Is using certbot the way to go for Letsencrypt certificate ? Any through tutorial on this ? Any pitfalls one should be aware of ?

Hello. I have a client that wants to offer a custom price for the first X products sold. I couldn’t find any module that does this. You got any recommendations?

Is a Page Builder solution for Magento Open Source still a thing you guys consider? If you’re on a budget and want to jumpstart a new Magento 2 site quickly, what important aspects you take into account to decide if a M2 page builder is right for you?

At the top of the site, source-code, there is BaseUrl and instead of showing domain.tld, it’s showing

/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/**/Magento_Catalog/product/view/

or

/static/frontend/Smartwave/porto/***

What is this? What is the static folder? Should I be disallowing it in robots.txt because Google is scanning these urls?

Guys I need some help, can you check my question on magento stack exchange? And maybe share some insight? Thank you! I am driving crazy with this…

Apache2 and Magento2 404 error

We (Old Magento 1.7 shop) have been hacked by someone that filled in there PayPal account as the only payment method available. In the database settings (core_config_data), I was able to retrieve his api_username / api_password / api_signature. But these fields are encrypted. Can anyone tell how they encrypted? They all end in equal signs.

Any change I can hack back by using his API credentials?

If not, can I disable the encryption, so that a future hacker would leave his credentials exposed?

Related: How could I effectively remove PayPal from the software so I can prevent this hack? I tried disabling Mage_paypal module but it still leaves the config options intact. I would like to remove the options from the config.

We have some fairly large tables for our quote_* tables. Is this just shopping cart data? Is it safe to delete?

magento.quote_address | 40.74M | 13.27G magento.quote_item | 19.76M | 5.00G magento.quote | 20.98M | 3.74G magento.quote_shipping_rate | 20.16M | 2.32G magento.quote_item_option | 19.95M | 1.16G magento.quote_payment | 19.24M | 1.12G