Comments on: Top 5 Clues A Store Is Running Magento

By: Preston

Preston — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:55:27 +0000

You can also navigate to http://www.example.com/install.php and see the message:

FAILED ERROR: Magento is already installed.

Of course not true on all sites, but it works sometimes.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:40:36 +0000

I use a nice little plugin for firefox called wappallizer and it shows all the technology that is used in a website unobtrusively in the address bar eg: http://magebase.com/ apache analytics jquery and wordpress pretty handy some times

By: mike

mike — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:01:54 +0000

I have built and am currently running ~13 magento stores. its pretty easy to tell.. I just show source and look for the theme url, and look where the image urls are pointing. similar to wordpress where everything is /WP-********..

By: nathan

nathan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:22:44 +0000

HI andrew:

Awesome this is very useful info.. I’m planning to use it instead of joomla.. it’s really really good & fast, speed is the key..

many thanks
nathan

By: Andrew Horton

Andrew Horton — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:01:18 +0000

Hi Nathan,

The website, http://www.business.govt.nz is using the Plone platform. Plone is written in Python and is popular with governments partly because of it’s excellent reputation for security.

I know it’s running Plone because I viewed the source code of the website and the HTML meta tag specified the page generator as Plone. WhatWeb also reports the website as using Plone.

By: nathan

nathan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:34:53 +0000

Hi what platform are they using?

http://www.business.govt.nz/

The CMS platform they are using is very good.

By: Kristof

Kristof — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:17:22 +0000

Hi Andrew,
thanks for posting a link to your plugin. I had a quick glance at the rules you have included. I would be very surprised if rules 1,2 and 4 were triggered – meaning that someone is running with the default settings and theme. Boxes.css has been renamed to styles.css on newer versions. And one more general problem with checking for text is that Magento has been translated into lots of different languages so your rule set matches mostly on stores in English.

Great work on the tool – very handy.

By: Andrew Horton

Andrew Horton — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:58:32 +0000

Hi MageBase guy,
Please remove my last comment due to code formatting issues.

I just wrote a Magento plugin for WhatWeb which is the best software to identify web technologies.

You can see the rules I used to identify Magneto here: http://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/blob/master/plugins/magento.rb

By: Nikul

Nikul — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:42:09 +0000

continue in above post…

var BLANK_URL = ‘http://www.lanigiro.com.sg/js/blank.html’;
var BLANK_IMG = ‘http://www.lanigiro.com.sg/js/spacer.gif’;

By: Nikul

Nikul — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Hi,

One more clue:
You will find below code in view source for magento store…

Thanks!
Nikul