Will I be able to convert with no downtime?

[Guest]

My small business site (http://www.cobracards.com) is currently live and has regular customers. I plan on converting my site to osCommerce; at the moment I have the new site (just starting construction) at a temporary URL (http://www.cobracards.com/test).

 

When I get my osCommerce site looking the way I want it, will I be able to simply pick the whole thing up and move it to replace my old site, and still have everything function correctly?

 

Thanks!

[noelc]

That depends on how your existing site is built - you need to put a plan in place and schedule the changeover - You also need to ensure all of your customer information is converted to the new database which is a pretty technical operation.

 

In the past when I have done this - I have left my old site accessible for customers to use if they choose to

 

Hope that helps,

 

Noel

[Guest]

Well, my existing site is pretty low-tech. :) Customers fll out an email form, and I deal with their orders by hand. There's no "customer database" that will need to be converted.

[Guest]

When I get my osCommerce site looking the way I want it, will I be able to simply pick the whole thing up and move it to replace my old site

Yes

You will only have to make changes in both your catalog and admin/includes/configure.php to reflect your new path

 

The_Bear

[conrad10781]

you can also just have a simple index.php in place of your old site now that points towards your new domain/test.

 

 

Something similar to

 

 

 

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<?

Header("Location: test/index.php");

?>

 

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