SEO in Magento

I was looking for SEO support provided in Magento. Then I came to know about some nice articles.

Here I would not write anything about Magento SEO,  as already some awesome articles has been written on SEO in Magento.

Here are they :

http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/

http://www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/a-guide-to-doing-seo-on-magento-websites/

Always good to reserve ports for glassfish.

When you encounter any problem on your glassfish server and have to manually change the port numbers your glassfish server may tend to start and stop.

This is usually because the port numbers you have changed to already are in use .
You may encounter any of the following error messages each of which indicates that your port is in use:

SEVERE: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind        

OR

Shutting down v3 due to startup exception : Address already in use: bind: 8181=com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.monitor.MonitorableSSLSelectorHandler@1513e285|#]

SOLUTION:

Reserve the range of the ephermal ports 

LINK for Microsoft solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812873

Glassfish admin-listener disabled by mistake.

Glassfish has a set of network listeners which are named are follows:
1.http-listener1
2.http-listener2
3.admin-listener
 
An HTTP listener named admin-listener, associated with the virtual server named __asadmin. For this listener, security is not enabled.
The admin-listener is used to listen  to the administrative Glassfish console  where you can configure all the settings for the  specific Glassfish domain.

HTTP listeners associated with the virtual server named server:  
The listener named http-listener-1 does not have security enabled.
The listener named http-listener-2 has security enabled.

Now we will focus on the error in which you might encounter when you by mistake disable the admin-listener.

SOLUTION is:

1. in command prompt run this command
 tasklist
 It will get the list of all the tasks and their process Id's.
2.Run netstat -a -o -n and check which process is using the port of your glassfish listener.
It will usually be a java process. End that java process if you know what it is.
3.If this does not work follow the following methods :

Glassfish always has its server log in the specific domain folder
The file structure will usually be something like glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/config/domain.xml.

Edit the domain.xml file. First check there is no process which is locking the file otherwise you will not be able to edit it.

Study the file beforehand and you will see there is a specification at the bottom like this
<network-listeners><network-listener port="8080" protocol="http-listener-1" transport="tcp" name="http-listener-1" thread-pool="http-thread-pool" />
  <network-listener port="8181" protocol="http-listener-2" transport="tcp" name="http-listener-2" thread-pool="http-thread-pool" />
  <network-listener port="4848" enabled="false"  protocol="admin-listener" transport="tcp" name="admin-listener" thread-pool="http-thread-pool" />
  </network-listeners>

Check whether these ports are open using the nestat -a command.
If  the ports are used you might see in the server logs which are located in
glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/logs/server.log there will be a message stating that the ports are already used.

In that case simply change the port number which has been specified in the error to something else.

Now focusing on our main problem if you have changed the  enabled="false" to enabled="true" it should solve your problem. :)

If you make a mistake in editing the domain.xml there is a domain.xml.bak which you can simply rename to the domain.xml file.

Cheers mate .. Hope this helps.
Any other problems simply email them to my email address and I will get back as soon as possible

jos.sanika@gmail.com

How to solve or improve Search functionality in Magento

Many of you might have faced problem with searching in Magento based website. Although Magento has improved it in recent versions.
Here I will just point 2 issues with Magento search functionality and their solution.

NOTE: In admin panel at Catalog - Manage Products - Product Name - General location you must set Visibility as Search or Catalog,Search . Otherwise product will not be visible in search results.

Issue 1: Search results are returning 0 results even though products are available in catalog.
Solution: This issue come due to incorrect indexes. Please apply below steps to get rid of this.
In admin panel go to System - Index Management. There Select All and re index all data.
In admin panel go to System - Cache Management. There Select All and refresh all data.

After this you will be able to see search results on your Magento based website.

Issue 2: How to enhance search results?
Solution:  To enhance results you have do small change in admin panel.
In admin panel go to System - configuration - Catalog - Catalog Search and then change Search Type to Combine (Like and Full text)

I hope above solution will solve your problem. In case you have any other problem feel free to ask me.