How to create a copy of a hosted os commerce site in its subdomain

[Vishal Kumar]

I am new to OS Commerce..i know basic php programming.. I've recently started working on making some modifications in a ecommerce store

My site is http://www.somersetcustomtailor.com

I copied this entire site to dev.somersetcustomtailor.com and it created a separate folder named /dev ... that contains the new project. I changed the configure.php to point to this new URL

http://dev.somersetcustomtailor.com/

But it's strange... On making changes to files inside this subdomain...the changes are reflected in the main site... that I don't want to disturb. Please suggest.

[MrPhil]

Files rather than Database entries are being unexpectedly changed? How did you set up this subdomain -- you used your host's control panel to create a subdomain 'dev' with a directory /dev? Simply creating /dev is insufficient. Are you downloading to a PC to edit, via FTP? Could you possibly be editing the main site's files because you're FTPing from and to the main site and not the subdomain?

 

By the way, there are two different configure.php files (store side and admin side). Make sure you got both of them.

[Vishal Kumar]

Yes... I changed both the config files and have created the subdomain using File Manager. I have sharing the same db for both apps. But the pages that admin can create using Backend have to do with database..........

 

If I am changing in dev.somersetcustomtailor.com/adminuser ......... modifying a page.the page in the somersetcustomtailor.com is also reflecting that........

[Vishal Kumar]

The same problem is there in my local installation in which I simply copied the entire project a new folder in xamp ... and on clicking on FAQ link, it automatically redirects to the original page .....with error

 

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the

referring page

seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of

that page

about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the

"]webmaster

.

 

Can anyone help plz ?

[adibranch]

you've not changed your database settings.. and/or you've not changed the entries in the database which relate to the URL, and/or you've not altered your htaccess.

[Vishal Kumar]

Hi adi.......

 

Actually both the projects are sharing the same database ... and whenever we create a new page from the admin backend ... it gets saved in cms table ...probably.

So both projects are fetching from the same db. Is this the case ?