msam Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Hi all, As a Newbie I've been lurking on these forums for a while, soaking up the atmosphere and a good deal of the excellent knowledge and and advice that lives here. I've finally taken the plunge and registered and come up with a question I'm finding difficult to answer....... I'm developing my osCommerce site on a local development environment using the excellent xampp toolset. So I'm wondering how easy it will be to move my site and catalogue to my chosen remote hosting provider when I want to go live. At the moment I can't see any other way than to do a clean install of osC on the remote server and poulate the catalog from scratch. This isn't too much of a problem because I haven't done a full catalog for my local test site, but I can't help thinking that being able to copy a local catalog to the remote site when it is ready would be quite useful. Has anyone found a way to do this or am I wasting my time? Thanks in advance, msam(Mark). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemRock Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 ...Has anyone found a way to do this or am I wasting my time? Yes, 'someone' has found a way long before WWW was invented: FTP. You could FTP the whole catalog (files) to the remote server. Filezilla FTP client would be a good one. Your future Host will be able (and they should) to provide you with info to set up FTP. Ken commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msam Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 Yes, 'someone' has found a way long before WWW was invented: FTP. You could FTP the whole catalog (files) to the remote server. Filezilla FTP client would be a good one. Your future Host will be able (and they should) to provide you with info to set up FTP. Ken Can it really be that simple? Thanks Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GemRock Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Can it really be that simple? Thanks Ken! Yes, its that simple except that the two configure.php files must be edited accordingly but that's w/o saying, no? Ken commercial support - unProtected channel, not to be confused with the forum with same name - open to everyone who need some professional help: either PM/email me, or go to my website (URL can be found in my profile). over 20 years of computer programming experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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