Testing site, or testing shop ?

[raneman]

I am designing a shop for a client. And wanted to know whether or not it is feasibale to design the shop in a testing sites (domains) and when completed transfer the entire content to the permenant location?

 

 

I am assuming that transferring the catalog should be easy. However, I am not sure about the admin files.

 

Could you help me? I like to start this right

 

thx

 

:x

[♥Vger]

Turn your own computer into a web server by installing an all-in-one package that installs Apache, PHP, Mysql, PHPMyAdmin etc. Then you can 'install' osCommerce in your web servers root directory and work on it in an offline environment. You can install XAMPP, by going here http://www.apachefriends.org - but remember that it uses php5, so you'll have to comment out $this to //$this on line 31 of admin/includes/classes/upload.php to get the osCommerce 'admin' tool to work properly.

 

Vger

[raneman]

Turn your own computer into a web server by installing an all-in-one package that installs Apache, PHP, Mysql, PHPMyAdmin etc.  Then you can 'install' osCommerce in your web servers root directory and work on it in an offline environment.  You can install XAMPP, by going here http://www.apachefriends.org - but remember that it uses php5, so you'll have to comment out $this to //$this on line 31 of admin/includes/classes/upload.php to get the osCommerce 'admin' tool to work properly.

 

Vger

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Thank you very much. You replys are always accurate and down to the point.

I have another quesiton for you. Uploading files to the final destination, are there any issues to consider?

[♥Vger]

Personally, I would recommend installing a new osCommerce on the server, and then using your local files to overwrite the new installation (including the database) - except for the configure.php files. That way the install sets up the configure.php files for you. Otherwise you'd have to do them manually, which is not difficult if you are used to it, but can be time-consuming if you're not.

 

Vger