TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1. Cache Management ...……………………………………………………..... 3 2. Magento Booster Configuration …...………………………………………4 3. Integration settings with AITOC Server Load Monitor ………………... 5 4. How to check whether the page is loaded from the booster cache?.. 7

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1. Cache Management

After the Magento Booster installation please go to admin panel and open System > Cache management

Enable “Magento Booster” option.

For the correct installation please make sure that the file magentobooster/use_cache.ser has full read/write/execute permissions

With Cache Warm-Up pages get cached prior to being open for the first time. Just run cache warm-up, and the pages will be ready to load at the speed of light when your customers visit your store. You can configure pages quantity to be cached by cron at a time from System > Configuration > Advanced > Magento Booster

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2. Magento Booster Configuration

Please open System > Configuration > Advanced > Magento Booster

If you have some dynamic blocks, please indicate here the names of the blocks which you would like not to cache.

Please set up the Cron schedule to clear cache which is set to 15 min by default.

Enable caching of pages for users after they put something to their cart.

Enable caching of pages for logged-in customers. Note that turning it on requires a bit more space for the cached pages.

Please indicate all custom admin panel url names here for correct log in.

Enable the debug to see what the page is loaded from cache. After that log out from admin panel and clear browser cookie or open site in another browser to see how the site loads for customers. FYI this option turns the debug on for all the users for the front- end pages and it is shown to customers too.

Please add here the pages which you would like not to cache.

Booster is disabled for all the frontend pages when admin browses within the same browser both back end & front end pages. Enabling this option turns Booster on for the admin users for the front-end pages.

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3. Integration settings with AITOC Server Load Monitor

These settings work only when AITOC Server Load Monitor (either Free or Paid) extension is installed as they use the server load data.

Set the color of server load to blocks search engine bots temporarily providing HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable with header('Retry-After: 3600', true, 503) by default.

Server Load Monitor module (Free or Paid) divides server performance into four intuitive color-coded zones: Green means minor server load, Yellow means average server load, Red means peak server load, Black means critical load or server failure.

Set the color of server load to disable dynamic content during critical load peaks. Choose whether to not display dynamic content blocks or have them replaced with placeholder text.

Set the color of server load zone to redistribute server resources (by sleep()) among for the following groups of pages: cms ( home page and other cms pages); checkout (shopping cart and checkout pages); catalog (product and categories pages); catalogsearch (search pages); other (pages that do not match any of the above page groups, i.e. wishlists, polls, customer pages, etc.). The default value is 10 seconds.

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3. Integration settings with AITOC Server Load Monitor

Set the color of server load zone to limit server resources based on users priority: - guest or logged-in customer; - customer with product(s) in the cart; - customer with high total in the cart; - returning blocked customer; - administrator.

Choose the content to be displayed to the blocked customer. Tetris game is enabled by default to offer the shoppers to play a flash game while the store is not available. You can add your own content / game from CMS->Static Blocks

Blocked customers may enter their email to be notified when the store is available. Manage an email template for the notification. Enable discount coupon for blocked user groups with separate discount email template.

Enter the URLs of the pages where the blocking would be disabled. Please enter each URL from a new line. Please make sure you include postback URLs of your payment methods here.

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4. How to check whether the page is loaded from the booster cache?

Tetris game is enabled by default to offer the shoppers to play a short flash game while the store is not available. Admin can add any content / game from CMS->Static Blocks and enable the created block to be displayed for the customers.

The default text is displayed to blocked users: Sorry, our shop is not available temporary. Please enter your email address if you'd like to be notified when the site is working. Otherwise you can play a quick game above while waiting the site is available to continue shopping. Admin can edit the text into the “Static text to show to blocked users” field among the other settings.

Blocked customers may enter their e-mail to be notified when the store is available.

To enable (disable) the debug and check what the page is loaded from the booster cache please go to admin panel and open System > Configuration > Advanced > Magento Booster. The top and bottom yellow debug lines become available once debug is enabled. You can also exclude the controllers and blocks by adding your own values to array in the lib/Aitoc/Aitpagecache/Mainpage.php file: protected $_pageExcludes = array(