Migrate Site Questions

[ya_dood]

Hi,

 

Found this thanks to Vger :)

 

To move a store to another domain you need to download all files and folders via FTP to your own computer. Then you need to make and download a backup of your existing database. Go to your osC admin panel --> Tools --> Download and select to Backup and to download the backup, and don't tick to use compression.

 

Then you upload all of the files/folders to your new site. Create a blank database (probably in your wb hosting control panel), and then go to your new blank database via phpMyAdmin, locate the new database, click on the SQL tab and use the Browse function to locate the backup you downloaded to your computer, then click 'Go' and this will populate the blank database with the information from your old one.

 

Then you need to edit the two configure.php files to refelect your new server setup (DIR_FS pathways in particular), and your new database details.

 

also:

I advise people not to enable ssl during the install is that virtually no one has a full ssl certificate before they install their domain - and if you enable ssl then your site will be set up for a full ssl cert and won't work properly without it. If you have access to a shared ssl cert then you need to input the correct information for this in the two configure.php files after you complete the install.

 

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So my question is I'm trying to take one osCommerce site and bring it over to another website to have as a similar site. The site being copied already has SSL and it's own unique customers + products. So I've copy and moved everything over but I wasn't sure about the SSL. On the new site I didn't have SSL installed in the beginning so could that be a problem as mentioned above? The only problem I'm getting now on the new site is the Modules section not showing up-which may be tied to the SSL, but I don't know what do do from here? thanks

[ya_dood]

also is a problem having my database username the same as my database name?