help from live shop keepers

[julbukki]

As iam setting up new first store and iam hoping to go live in few weeks i would like to know how you experst handle shop developing in future. What iam after is to have 2 shops indentical so i could always test on this Ddummy" shop some contributions or other developeing stuff and then if i see it working i could tranrfer it into live shop. So how you have done this (same database if so what need to be modified or what files are different etc...)

Thanks

[Darklings]

I believe most of us just set up a local server to test things on.. There are easy installs out there like 'easyphp' - do a google search - i'm sure there are others bundles too.. this 'easyphp' contains Apache, mySQL, php and phpmyadmin.

Then you'll have a local server - where you can easely put the same osC as what is online on - and test localy - if an update works as expected - then you can upload.

 

Kind Regards,

Tom

[WiseWombat]

As iam setting up new first store and iam hoping to go live in few weeks i would like to know how you experst handle shop developing in future. What iam after is to have 2 shops indentical so i could always test on this Ddummy" shop some contributions or other developeing stuff and then if i see it working i could tranrfer it into live shop. So how you have done this (same database if so what need to be modified or what files are different etc...)

Thanks

Copy your site to your machine and set up your server then put your catalog folder into the servers root directory then install or set up your database.

You will also need to install php.

Once this is done import your db_sql.txt backup from your catalog/admin/backups directory into your database using phpmyadmin.

Once you have done this you will also need to set your catalog/includes/configure.php and catalog/admin/includes/configure.php files set up to local host rather then mydomain.com.