duplicating site to as to have a test shop

[voytek]

I've set up up an oscommerce site, and, some products have been entered;

also, some code has been altered with contribution stuff (no prices till logged in)

 

it's all working fine, the site is not live yet

 

I'd like to duplicate the site to have a 'test shop' for the user to play with

 

as the code has been moded with contribs, I'm looking at copying the entire oscommerce tree, duplicating mysql database, and, editing config to work with the new database

 

is that the way to go, what have I overlooked ?

I was thinking of setting something like testshop.domain.tld/catalog/ for the test shop

 

anyhow, thought to seek some advice before I do it

 

thanks, Voytek

[Wendy James]

Sounds like you have everything. : )

Copy the files and database.

Upload to the new area.

make new database then install the sql file saved from the original

edit the 2 configure files /incldues/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php changing both the database info and the filder structure/domain name

[voytek]

Sounds like you have everything. : )

Copy the files and database.

Upload to the new area.

make new database then install the sql file saved from the original

edit the 2 configure files /incldues/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php changing both the database info and the filder structure/domain name

 

thanks, Wendy

 

just remembered one more thing, with multi-shops on same host, I need, what is it, cookie path? type of cookie ?

I recall something from installation docs... is that also in configure.php ?