Magento Go-Live Best Practices Checklist

Implementing a successful Magento go-live strategy requires careful attention to key settings and recommendations such as enabling page cache, optimizing performance, managing permissions, and applying necessary patches. This checklist covers essential steps to ensure a smooth transition to a live environment.

• Magento
• Go-Live
• Best Practices
• Performance Optimization
• Checklist

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1. Go live Checklist Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Application Application Best Best Practices Practices Full page cache enabled Full page cache auto generation enabled JS merging enabled CSS merging enabled Magento log cleaning enabled to clean logs > 30 days Flat tables enabled commented out in htaccess to prevent FPC issue ETags lifetime: 2592000, cookie path: / , cookie domain: .domainname. com , Use HTTP only: Yes, Cookie Restriction Mode: No Session Validation Settings

2. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Application Application Best Best Practices Practices utilize different domains for media, skin, and JS loadingenabled Parralel Connections find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ; find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; Correct Magento permissions Webserver user should own the files Correct Magento ownership Webserver user should have cron setup. Example: sudo crontab -u www-data -e Magento cron setup htaccess [devops to complete SSH user group [devops to complete] rsync (for load balanced environment) [devops to complete]

3. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Application Application Patches Patches Installed Installed for known issue of sessions messages not appearing on product pages Magento for known issue of products disappearing on sites with > 1 store Magento multi-store patch Magento admin product save SQL error required for cache clearing to work from admin in load balanced environments BA cache clear module General General Performance Performance Settings Settings Enabled for text/plain application/xml text/css text/js text/xml application/x- javascript text/javascript application/ json application/xml+rss Gzip compression Setting an Expires header on assets will prevent the browser from having to revalidate on every request Expires headers

4. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note General General Performance Performance Settings Settings Confirm not utilizing HTML or CSS to scale down images on the page Minimize scaling image use Media and other images should be properly compressed for the web pre launch Compress media directory Sprites should be utilized in order to minimize the number of HTTP requests when displaying images across the site CSS sprites Stylesheets should be loaded in the HEAD tag or near the top of the page so that they are loaded quickly Stylesheet placement Scripts should be loaded near the end of a page as they can often block the rest of the page from loading 3rd party script placement Minifying JS and CSS will reduce the total file size of the served files Minify JS and CSS

5. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note General General Performance Performance Settings Settings redis or memcache needs to be utilized to store sessions, cache, and full page cache Redis/Memcache Utilize redis tag cleanup script [devops complete] enabled for load balanced environments logrotate report_event and quote_tables should be configured where entries > 30 days old are removed Database cleaning Softwar Software e Settings Settings MySQL/Percona MySQL/Percona Version Percona 5.5 Check that all tables are of type INNODB INNODB 41% Shared, 83% Dedicated innodb_buffer_pool_size

6. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Softwar Software e Settings Settings MySQL/Percona MySQL/Percona innodb_thread_concurrency 2 * [Number of CPUs] + 2 thread_cache_size 8-16 thread_concurrency 16-32 table_cache / table_open_cache 1024 query_cache_size 64M query_cache_limit 2M join_buffer_size 8M sort_buffer_size 8M MySQL Logging Disabled

7. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note PHP PHP version 5.3+ maxvar [need devops] memory_limit 256M max_execution_time 1800 realpath_cache_size 256K realpath_cache_ttl 86400 SOAP, PDO_MySQL, simplexml, mcrypt, hash,GD,DOM,iconv2 [need devops consult] Extensions needed Apache Apache

8. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Redis Redis Version [need devops] daemonize yes timeout 0 loglevel notice rdbcompression no maxmemory 8000000000 (8GB) maxmemory-policy volatile-lru auto-aof-rewrite-percentage 100 auto-aof-rewrite-min-size 64mb slowlog-log-slower-than 10000 slowlog-max-len 1024 list-max-ziplist-entries 512

9. Name Name Recommendation/Setting Recommendation/Setting Status Status Due Due Date Date Assignmnet Assignmnet Note Note Redis Redis zset-max-ziplist-entries 128 zset-max-ziplist-value 64 activerehashing yes web nodes can communicate to each other and DB port open for redis