Moving my store

[krbmedia]

Here is my dilemna. I am a newbie and forgive me if my questions sound stupid. I currently have a Miva store and I want to convert it into an oscommerce store. The Miva store is under a domain name on a terrible hosting company's servers. Lets call the domain name aaa.com. What I am doing is building the oscmmerce store under another domain name, lets call it bbb.com. I eventually want the oscommerce store to be on the aaa.com domain but with a new hosting company. So, when the oscommerce store is finished, I want to transfer my domain name aaa.com to the new server and move the store I built into the domaim name, aaa.com, when its transfered.

 

Here are my question:

 

Is there an easy way to convert Miva into Oscommerce?

 

Can I download back into my computer the oscommerce folders, and reupload to the new domain name?

 

What folders contain my products and store information etc.?

 

Can I copy those folders into a fresh OScomerce package, uploda it and do a new install etc.

[ozcsys]

Here is my dilemna. I am a newbie and forgive me if my questions sound stupid. I currently have a Miva store and I want to convert it into an oscommerce store. The Miva store is under a domain name on a terrible hosting company's servers. Lets call the domain name aaa.com. What I am doing is building the oscmmerce store under another domain name, lets call it bbb.com. I eventually want the oscommerce store to be on the aaa.com domain but with a new hosting company. So, when the oscommerce store is finished, I want to transfer my domain name aaa.com to the new server and move the store I built into the domaim name, aaa.com, when its transfered.

 

Here are my question:

 

Is there an easy way to convert Miva into Oscommerce?

 

Can I download back into my computer the oscommerce folders, and reupload to the new domain name?

 

What folders contain my products and store information etc.?

 

Can I copy those folders into a fresh OScomerce package, uploda it and do a new install etc.

A little easier way to do this would be to install easyphp on your local computer. Then you can use the domain name you want to end up keeping when putting your site together. This should save you a little work. As far as moving your products over it depends on whether you can export the info from you old site or not. If you can export to a csv file then you could use easypopulate ( a contribution )to import the information into your new site. Then when your are done with your site you can upload it to a server at that point and be good to go.