Snoboreders Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 Alright, now that sales are coming in, I can no longer mess around with the website over weekends. Do you host it locally or on the internet. I tried to learn how to host it locally but got caught up with all the apache stuff, and although I had done it once before on a Windows comp in class, I can't figure out how to do it on a Mac. Any suggestions?
usernamenone Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and choose XAMP FOR MAC OS X
Snoboreders Posted November 5, 2007 Author Posted November 5, 2007 I could have asked for neither a more pithy or perfect response. Thank you usernamenone!
techmanos Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 sometimes it is a good idea to create a sub-folder on a server for testing purpose. Installing cart to a sub-folder will not mess up the live site if any thing hard happened.
♥bruyndoncx Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 Development locally on your PC/Mac where you can make changes fast. Testing on your hosted environment in a separate directory to ensure everything will be working fine in your live store (same php version, same mysql, same settings ...) KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON I do not use the responsive bootstrap version since i coded my responsive version earlier, but i have bought every 28d of code package to support burts effort and keep this forum alive (albeit more like on life support). So if you are still here ? What are you waiting for ?! Find the most frequent unique errors to fix: grep "PHP" php_error_log.txt | sed "s/^.* PHP/PHP/g" |grep "line" |sort | uniq -c | sort -r > counterrors.txt
Snoboreders Posted December 27, 2007 Author Posted December 27, 2007 Awesome....so I'd create a subfolder in my root directory labeled "test" and upload the site into that....and then go to mysite.com/test/index.php and my site would show up again? That'd be perfect, because I was actually thinking of purchasing another site to run tests on (which would be foolish when I can just do the above).
redbone Posted December 28, 2007 Posted December 28, 2007 Actually, if you're running Mac OS X (which I assume you are) Apache is already pre-installed. Simply go into your System Preferences, then click 'Sharing' then turn on Personal Web sharing. I have an older Mac that I use just for this purpose.
Snoboreders Posted December 28, 2007 Author Posted December 28, 2007 Actually, if you're running Mac OS X (which I assume you are) Apache is already pre-installed. Simply go into your System Preferences, then click 'Sharing' then turn on Personal Web sharing. I have an older Mac that I use just for this purpose. Redbone...thanks for telling me that. Unfortunately, I suck when dealing with Apache. I have enabled it, but I have no idea what to do next. I go to http://localhost and see the apache web browser...but I have no idea where to place the site. Also, can I still add a dif folder to my website (on the net) and use that as a test server? Or would I have to purchase a new domain? So, for example, instead of accessing my root folder for the site, I can drag and drop everything in a folder labeled test, and then go to mysite.com/test and it'll be my site again? Thanks for the help.
Ronaldinho53 Posted December 28, 2007 Posted December 28, 2007 Also, can I still add a dif folder to my website (on the net) and use that as a test server? Yes, that will work too, but don't forget to change the paths in your config files to match your new folder. "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." GROUCHO (1895-1977)
usernamenone Posted December 28, 2007 Posted December 28, 2007 The Apache DocumentRoot directory. This is where the webpages belong. /Applications/xampp/htdocs/ You place your catalog in the htdocs folder. You will then go to phpmyadmin and create a new database. You will then open your browser to localhost/catalog and run the installer
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