Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Applying magento patches godaddy server

Recently I received an email from my hosting "Apply this critical security patch for your magento website", so I gone through a process that how to apply patch on magento hosted in an online server.

In my case the patch SUPEE-5344 was patch.

Downloading patch

  1. Log in to your Magento admin panel (http://your domain name/admin).
  2. Note your version, which displays at the bottom of the page as Magento ver.
  3. Go to the Magento website.
  4. In the Magento Community Edition Patches area, next to SUPEE-5344, from the Select your format menu, click the option that corresponds to your version of Magento.

    For example, if you have Magento version 1.6.2.0, you would click Magento-CE-v1.6.1.x-1.6.2.x
  5. Click Download.
  6. Log in to your Magento account to complete the download.
  7. Copy down the name of the extension that you download.

Upload patch

Apply patch

  1. Enable SSH on your server, in godaddy server you can find it in security section SSH Access. Click on "SSH Access"
    Click on SSH Access
Click on Manage SSH Keys

Click on Generate New Key

Provide parameters and Click on Generate Key



Click on Manage link on newly generated Key

Authorize it

Click on newly generated private key View/Download link

Provide password and click on convert

Download Key to use it in putty

Open Putty enter your website address

Browse downloaded key

Click on Open button

Provide username and password which you use to login on your server (hosting server)

Once you logged in, go to public_html where you have uploaded your patch file, depending on patch file type run command as above.
sh <patchfile name>


Reference : godaddy.com