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Magento – Couldn’t resolve host ‘magento-community’

By August 22, 2014April 28th, 20155 Comments

Updating plugins via Magento Connect Manager can often lead to (delete as appropriate) anger / bemusement / tears / relief. So it wasn’t a great surprise that I hit an error message when trying to update a Payment Gateway module for a neglected v1.5 Magento website.

Couldn’t resolve host ‘magento-community’

Magento Connect Manager screenshot

 

The fix, thankfully is a simple one and a result of the switch from Magento Connect Manager v1.0 to v2.0. The update has caused changes to the installation key prefix.

Magento Connect Manager v1.0 Example

magento-community/Paymentsense_Paymentsensegateway-1.11.2

 

Magento Connect Manager v2.0 Example

http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community/Paymentsense_Paymentsensegateway-1.11.2

 

So in this example;

magento-community/

 

has now become;

http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community/

 

So what’s the big fuss with V2.0?

V2.0 mostly support for dependencies, which provides better package management, with alerts and less chance of installing conflicting plugins.

Andrew Taylor

A senior UI designer with over 25 years of web design and web development experience working for some of the largest companies in the UK. An expert in all things Magento and WordPress.

5 Comments

  • Dean says:

    Im still having no joy with this.

    Tried both ways but if I use the 2.0 variation I get a different error:

    community/Helios_Hssocialmedia: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

    Very Frustrating

  • playboxdesign says:

    thank you, brilliant! worked for me

  • Matthew Collins says:

    Fantastic !!! It worked for me trying to install a French language pack, (and it was so easy) … Thank you

  • Thanks for the update. I’m glad I could be of help 🙂

  • pushpendra says:

    when i upgrade my magento version 1.7 to 1.9 ….i try this key in magento connect..
    magento-core/Mage_All_Latest
    then i found this error….
    Could not resolve host: magento-core
    help me….

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