Tag Archives: migration

imapsync on a mac takes too much ram

I’m currently migrating emails for one of our customers from the old hosting company to the new one. To do this we are using imapsync – an awesome tool! TL;DR: Just use the docker box by Gilles… https://hub.docker.com/r/gilleslamiral/imapsync My own journey But currently there is a weird bug on mac, that it might take aContinue reading “imapsync on a mac takes too much ram”

Migration: Find customer which can’t login, because they have multiple accounts

When migrating multiple Magento websites to Shopware 6 via migrations assistant, you can end up with the same customer account (aka email address), not being a guest and no sales_channel attached. To find the customers, you can run the following SQL query, it will show you the email address, the ids of the customer rowsContinue reading “Migration: Find customer which can’t login, because they have multiple accounts”

Shopware: Redirect old URLs

We migrated a Magento to Shopware and one of the things we had to do is find a solution to redirect the old URLs. Easy solution: VHost config Most of the time you can just add them to the VHost config, so they are loaded once with the apache and used by the apache. NoContinue reading “Shopware: Redirect old URLs”

Shopware 6: Fix migrated customers with multiple accounts across sales channels

Shopware: 6.5.6.1, but more important MySQL 8! We migrated a Magento 1 store to Shopware. One of the downsides we discovered later is, that all customers were unrestricted about sales channels. That is especially a problem, because some customers have more than one account and because all accounts are attached to all sales channel, theyContinue reading “Shopware 6: Fix migrated customers with multiple accounts across sales channels”

Shopware 6: Migrations and missing data

Shopware Version 6.5.7.3 We have a couple of plugins on the Shopware store, one of them is an addition and filter for invoice numbers on the order grid in the administration. In December we got a very nice support ticket from Sebastian working at dot21.net. We have a bug, that the order list is notContinue reading “Shopware 6: Migrations and missing data”

Apache: Writing and debugging RewriteRules

Yesterday I had to improve RewriteRules. We redirected the old Magento 1 /catalogsearch/ search urls to the homepage. Yesterday the penny dropped and we decided to redirect it to the Shopware search ? How to do this you asked? But more important to me is, how to implement this. Stackoverflow helps, the documentation from ApacheContinue reading “Apache: Writing and debugging RewriteRules”

Projects: End with the version you start with

Good morning! Today is a short one. We just launched a Migration from Magento 1 to Shopware 6. It was a great and complex project, with a gorgeous customer. We migrated around 120.000 customer with around 140.000 orders. We (and by we I mean cobby – check them out!) imported and updated 15.000 products fromContinue reading “Projects: End with the version you start with”

Migrating passwords from your old store to Shopify/BigCommerce/any SaaS …

It is not possible – isn’t it? Shopify is stating on their webite, that they can’t import passwords and the recommended way to migrate customers is to send them an invite/activation link. I’m sure you can imagine that you’ll lose a lot of customer accounts by doing this. That means as well you might loseContinue reading “Migrating passwords from your old store to Shopify/BigCommerce/any SaaS …”

Shopware 6 – How to mysqldump

Other posts about mysqldump mysqldump –quick -C –hex-blob –single-transaction –quick, -q This option is useful for dumping large tables. It forces mysqldump to retrieve rows for a table fromthe server a row at a time rather than retrieving the entire row set and buffering it in memorybefore writing it out.–compress, -C Compress all information sentContinue reading “Shopware 6 – How to mysqldump”