A "how to" guide for mooving custumers/orders etc to a new shop?

[Selini]

I have a shop running at a server.. it has a couple of ishuse that I can't figure out so I have made a new shop and put all the contribusjones I would like in it, and made shoure it works and now I would like to take a copy of this testing shop, get the copy in to a new database and then take all the customers/orders/affiliates/inventory over to that copy shop and then delite the one I have running now..

 

How can I do that?

[andyshep]

I have a shop running at a server.. it has a couple of ishuse that I can't figure out so I have made a new shop and put all the contribusjones I would like in it, and made shoure it works and now I would like to take a copy of this testing shop, get the copy in to a new database and then take all the customers/orders/affiliates/inventory over to that copy shop and then delite the one I have running now..

 

How can I do that?

 

surely its just a case of backing up your current sites database and importing the .sql file into the new database...

[Selini]

surely its just a case of backing up your current sites database and importing the .sql file into the new database...

 

Is it really? What about all the files that are missing from a brand new shop? I have a lots of mods installed on the shop that I have fixed..

[insomniac2]

You should be able to use the same database without to much hassles.

 

If you are missing .php files it should not matter ... those missing or modded files will just not be calling any extra database tables or fields that you may have added.

 

You would definately want to go through and remove any unused tables or fields to avoid confusion and keep your database clean.

[Selini]

I really want to do this right!

 

To have a Clean shop ekstra just in case something happends.. Can I uplode files via FTP? To get on like the one we dowload when vi download clean shops?