Install on Windows - transpher to Linux. Possible?

[Paulo Kiefe]

I would like to install osCommerce on my Windows Laptop to setup the osCommerce store. Then I would transpher it to a Linux webserver. Is this possible to do?

 

I saw that under the download there are two packages.. one for Windows and one for Linux. What is the difference? Can I install and setup the Windows-version and then migrate it to a Linux server?

 

Thanks for any help :)

[conrad10781]

not take the whole thing over, you could re-install a new clean install on the linux server, then upload indivual files like index.php etc.not just upload the whole folder

[Paulo Kiefe]

not take the whole thing over, you could re-install a new clean install on the linux server, then upload indivual files like index.php etc.not just upload the whole folder

Ok.. thanks... I will keep that in mind when I migrate the whole thing to the linux server. :)

 

I think that I will do a small test before the big day. :)

[ozcsys]

I would like to install osCommerce on my Windows Laptop to setup the osCommerce store. Then I would transpher it to a Linux webserver. Is this possible to do?

 

I saw that under the download there are two packages.. one for Windows and one for Linux. What is the difference? Can I install and setup the Windows-version and then migrate it to a Linux server?

 

Thanks for any help :)

Not a problem I almost always build my sites and then upload them to the server once they are done. You need to install easy php on your local computer

 

Easy PHP install instructions

 

When you get ready to upload your site to the server the only files you will need to change are your two configure.php files.

 

You can ftp all your files to the server without any issues. You will need to create and populate the database and change the config files and you will be up and going in no time.

[Guest]

the final installation is the same as on windows, other than the configure.php files. thus you can copy the whole thing to linux and then make the changes in two files.

[Paulo Kiefe]

Thanks for the good and quick help guys!!! ;)

[RojanUK]

the final installation is the same as on windows, other than the configure.php files.  thus you can copy the whole thing to linux and then make the changes in two files.

 

As I'm using the same setup - EasyPHP on a windows machine to create site and when done it will be uploaded to a linux based server - I wonder what the changes are that need to be made to the configure.php file.

 

And also: ozcsys: what do you mean by "You will need to create and populate the database"? Doesn't the database automatically gets copied to the server? This is probably something really stupid which I'm overlooking but I'm lost.

 

Thanks.

[ozcsys]

the final installation is the same as on windows, other than the configure.php files.? thus you can copy the whole thing to linux and then make the changes in two files.

 

As I'm using the same setup - EasyPHP on a windows machine to create site and when done it will be uploaded to a linux based server - I wonder what the changes are that need to be made to the configure.php file.

 

And also: ozcsys: what do you mean by "You will need to create and populate the database"? Doesn't the database automatically gets copied to the server? This is probably something really stupid which I'm overlooking but I'm lost.

 

Thanks.

Basically you will neet to make sure the paths and database settings match the server where the site will be installed. The process is the same as moving from one server to another except that you do not have to download the site to your local computer first since it is already there. You can see the needed steps in this thread.

 

 

You can not copy the database to your server, what you will need to do is create a database and user and then using the sql file that the osC backup produces you go to phpmyadmin and populate the database.

 

If you cannot figure out how to populate the database and make the needed changes to your configure.php files what you can do is replace the oscommerce.sql file in the install folder with the sql file created from the admin backup and then ftp all your files to your server and run the install program. That should install your site using the info and products you have already used instead of the demo that is usually installed.