Magento – Magento 1.6: This webpage has a redirect loop

magento-1.6

I have a dev site on magento 1.6 . Now I am trying to create a local installation with this dev site files and DB.

I have changed the

web/unsecure/base_url
web/secure/base_url
and web/url/redirect_to_base to 0.

I have also cleared

var/cache
and var/session.

But I am still getting:

This webpage has a redirect loop issue.

Tell me please how to resolve this error?

Best Answer

Magento sets session and session id into cookies in

Mage_Core_Model_Session_Abstract_Varien::start()

Here you can find the call of php function session_set_cookie_params.

This function sets headers for browser to create cookies with params: lifetime, path, domain, secure, httponly. It is very important always to send the same last four path, domain, secure, httponly parameters because otherwise you will not be able to manage(edit, delete) them.

You can set them in System -> Configuration -> Web -> Session Cookie Management.

On every load Magento validates cookies based on System -> Configuration -> Web -> Session Validation Settings. Probably you have Validate HTTP_USER_AGENT set to yes. It means that if user agent will change(this happens all the time when google chrome get new updates), Magento tries to expire(delete) cookies and then redirect customer to the same page.

Now imagine that browser does not allow to delete cookies(because one of the parametes path, domain, secure, httponly is different). Then you will come to the website with the invalid cookie and Magento again redirects you.

To solve the problem you need to set all Session Validation Settings to No or revert Session Validation Settings to default.

Also make sure that you do not have changes in Mage_Core_Model_Session_Abstract_Varien::start().

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Magento 1.6 XML Configuration – Explain app/etc/local.xml File

In Local.xml file magento store the database information host details of the site while installing.

Just have look on your local.xml file.

You need to change the following

<default_setup>
    <connection>
        <host><![CDATA[localhost]]></host>
        <username><![CDATA[root]]></username>
        <password><![CDATA[]]></password>
        <dbname><![CDATA[magento-tdmes]]></dbname>
        <initStatements><![CDATA[SET NAMES utf8]]></initStatements>
        <model><![CDATA[mysql4]]></model>
        <type><![CDATA[pdo_mysql]]></type>
        <pdoType><![CDATA[]]></pdoType>
        <active>1</active>
    </connection>
</default_setup>

Host tag your host name

username tag DataBase User Name

password tag DataBase password

dbname tag Site DataBase Name

Change these things for your dev server.

NOTE: If this file readable to all then Hackers can easily hack your site

Magento – how to sort related products by position? magento 1.6

You can not sort related product Collection by using position sort field of category

First you need to add catalog_category_product table in related product Collection.

Because

One product may be included on different different categories that product have different position on different category,therefore for this reason on you can only join a category.

$collection->joinField('category_id',
    'catalog/category_product',
    '*',
    'product_id=product_id',
    null,
    'left'
);
$collection->addAttributeToFilter('category_id',5);

Example:

Suppose a product is included in two category cat1 and cat2.From admin>Manage Category>

you have set different sort for Cat1-> 5, Cat2->8. That time you will face the issue.

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Magento 1.6 XML Configuration – Explain app/etc/local.xml File

Magento – how to sort related products by position? magento 1.6

Example:

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