timothyj Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Hi, I've never used anything like this before have limited experience in programming/developing and have decided to take the plunge into oscommerce. I've already made many mistakes such as using PHP5 and MySQL 5 which bought nothing but errors, ive set with the combination of Apache 2.0.54 with OpenSSL 0.9.8a, PHP 4.4, phpMyAdmin 2.6.4-pl2, MySQL 4.1.14 and osCommerce 2.2-ms2. Now i've already got tonnes of info from these great forums I was wondering about a few things. Can I just make the whole website setup as a whole localhost store with a test certificate and setup just from the one host then just upload the catalog and the database when as soon as ive got a permanent hosting solution. If so how does one export their database properly and upload the site, and do I just have to change the settings in configure.php, httpd.conf, ssl.conf, php.ini make sure all the paths are correct and it will run? Is that the way to go about it? So what i'm saying is, is it relatively easy for a n00b like me to just make the whole store how i want it setup as localhost then just upload it to the hosting service and edit the files accordingly, also how do i access phpmyadmin and admin from the hosting services? Thanks for the great store front-end its a ripper! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy James Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 You can run the site locally without a certificate if you just want it there for easy editing and setting up... then upload it to a server when you are done. I use easyphp to do this but other people use xampp Getting the database information once you are ready to transfer is relatively easy. Just load phpmyadmin, select your database then click export, select all table then click on go :) Only think you will really need to worry about changing once you upload it to your webhost would be the includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php to match the new server and database information, as well as your secure server info. Hope that helps some. Wendy James Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timothyj Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 thanks a lot thats all i needed to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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