Difference between revisions of "Installing Magento Extensions : Pre-install Checklist"
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Revision as of 11:39, 14 April 2014
We spend a lot of time testing our extensions on fresh installs of Magento. However, there are a lot of different ways to setup, customize, and add-on to Magento, which can cause new issues - please follow this checklist before starting your install, to safeguard your site.
- You should do this before *every* extension install (not just ours!).
- Backup your database
- eg. using phpMyAdmin or the command line, make a copy of your database
- Backup your /app folder
- this is the fastest way to fully revert if you need to
- easiest to put it next to your current /app folder (e.g. 'app_bkp'), that way you only need to rename the two folders to revert
- If you have compilation enabled for your site, disable it
- if you're not sure if you have this turned on, check (System > Tools > Compilation).