Dropping all customoziations and returning to a default template

[dremhmrk2]

I've taken over a rather shoddily built osCommerce site and I am fighting it left and right. I have no list of installed modules, and every module I try to install or edit just begins falling apart on me.

 

I'd like to take the entire install to a "default state," keeping my entered data and database tables but returning the site back to a normal theme.

 

 

What's the best way to go about this?

[rxia]

I've taken over a rather shoddily built osCommerce site and I am fighting it left and right. I have no list of installed modules, and every module I try to install or edit just begins falling apart on me.

 

I'd like to take the entire install to a "default state," keeping my entered data and database tables but returning the site back to a normal theme.

 

 

What's the best way to go about this?

 

 

I would install a new instance of OSCommerce in another directory, but point it to the original database (you will need to take the settings from incudes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php

 

This will probably much easier than trying to make changes to broken code. Once you see that it is working with this new install, you can delete the old oscommerce files.

 

 

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[FIMBLE]

You ideally will need to know which modules have been added to the database so they can also be removed.

make a back up first of the store and database and put somewhere safe, then so long as you use the same version you can overwrite the existing store files.

You will need to upload the two configure files.

 

Another way is to install a new catalog to a different folder on the server than once installed add the original database to it.

You need to be aware that if you do not remove the SQL for contributions and then try again to install that contribution to the new store it could lead to problems with duplicates in your database

Nic