Magento special price still showing after expiration
The problem
After much research, I can only assume this special price issue not working properly is a bug in Magento. The only accepted solution was to visit the admin page System > Configuration and Reindex the Data for Product Prices. Fine, but I can’t tell my client to log into his admin every morning and clear his indices.
Create cron jobs
Instead, I created some cron jobs to clear the indices and cache storage every night at midnight.
Reindex all Magento indices
Create one cron using the following command:
php /home/path/to/magento/shell/indexer.php reindexallClear all cache
To clear all Magento cache, we will need to create a script file that deletes everything in /var/cache/.
- Create a file called clearcache.sh in the directory one level above public_html (so it’s not publicly accessible)
- Put the following lines into that file:
#!/bin/bash rm -rf /home/path/to/magento/public_html/var/cache/* - Edit the path to your Magento installation and /var/cache/ directory as necessary.
- Create the cron job using the following command:
bash -s < /home/path/to/clearcache.sh
i have a website in magento and when the sales end the sale price still appears in the home page but not in the article itself could you help me
Hi,
question: How does that …
bash -s < /home/path/to/clearcache.sh
… create a cron job?
Don't you mean crontab -s?
Regards
@Günther – I should have elaborated on this article. My terminology refers to how this was done within cPanel. There is a very nice “cron job builder” interface that let’s you call a file to run as often as you like.
Thanks!! Concrete and solved.