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Moved my OScommerce site to a new server, now what?


Juha

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Hey guys, I have been operating my own webshop on a server for 5 years, but now I had to relocate it to another one, and it's been a long time since I played around with the files, so: what things do I need to change to get it working again? my website address remains the same but otherwise I got new user names, passwords, mysql database etc. No doubt I will find these things out in time, but I'd like to get the site up and running as quick as possbile, so any help and pointers are appreciated! Thanks in advance. :)

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Hey guys, I have been operating my own webshop on a server for 5 years, but now I had to relocate it to another one, and it's been a long time since I played around with the files, so: what things do I need to change to get it working again? my website address remains the same but otherwise I got new user names, passwords, mysql database etc. No doubt I will find these things out in time, but I'd like to get the site up and running as quick as possbile, so any help and pointers are appreciated! Thanks in advance. :)

 

You will need to update the 2 files

 

catalog/includes/configure.php and

 

catalog/admin/includes/configure.php

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Oh, boy. It wasn't all that simple to move the shop to a new server. In addition to changing the config files, there's a bunch of changes I've needed to make due to the server using a newer version of PHP. It involves changing the code quite a bit, like applying the no-register_globals fix, changing all the ereg&eregi instances in the functions, and so on. I am still ironing out the kinks and testing the site. Hopefully I will be able to go live with the site in a couple of days.

 

I didn't want to upgrade to a newer version of Oscommerce, as I have quite heavile modified my site. Upgrading would probably require quite a bit coding, if I wanted the same look&functionality.

 

One thing I am still scratching my head over is that my database uses latin1_swedish character coding, while my mysql server uses UTF-8 unicode, so I get a bunch of ? marks instead of Scandinavian letters. I have asked my SP if they can do anything about this. Hope I can solve this issue too.

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