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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.

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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