Guest Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Hi, If we install and configure osCommerce on our local machine can we easily move to our domain name later? Best regards, Henrik
jrwrestling Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Many people test on their home machine. If you run the same OS as your host, transfer can go rather painlessly.
fiat707 Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 I agree with Jacob. But from my experience, when moving from local server to hosted server, you still need to make an initial installation on your hosted server. And then, many parts of the configuration still have to be done again with the Admin in your hosted server. (although all the modified page files in your local server will stay modified if you just copy them to your hosted server :) Good luck!
Cullen Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Can someone give me the simple ABC on what I should download to get the osC setup and installed it seems to be very hard to find any simple step by step info on this in the download section?
mortsahl Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Are you installing on your own machine or a hosted machine? Is the OS Linux or Windows?
Cullen Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Are you installing on your own machine or a hosted machine? Is the OS Linux or Windows? I am running WinXp and want to install it locally FIRST only to upload it later. Thanx!
mortsahl Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Sorry, I can't help ... I installed on linux and followed the directions in \oscommerce-2.2ms2\INSTALL ... downloaded and made apache, mod_ssl, openssl, etc. I only use XP for games and web browsing and linux for _real_ work. Hopefully someone else can jump in and help you out with a Windows install.
Cullen Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Sorry, I can't help ... I installed on linux and followed the directions in \oscommerce-2.2ms2\INSTALL ... downloaded and made apache, mod_ssl, openssl, etc. I only use XP for games and web browsing and linux for _real_ work. Hopefully someone else can jump in and help you out with a Windows install. OK thanx I was able to open the Install file now weird stuff when it is all in unrec. formats when unziped?!
Jeremy at oddly enough Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 I downloaded phpdev, and set it up to run osc on my machine, Which is running XP too. Jeremy Very simple to setup and install everything.
berkedam Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 cullen:I am running WinXp and want to install it locally FIRST only to upload it later. goto <http://www.apachefriends.org/> and install on yr xp. very very user friendly, few clicks, then make 3 shortcuts on desktop. unzip osco and yr off in the race. "If you're working on something new, then you are necessarily an amateur."
mortsahl Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 Be careful, tho, Apache on Windows is still very buggy. Why anyone would want to do web applications on a Windows box is beyond me -- just asking for trouble. Maybe if you do IIS and .NET stuff, but using Apache, php, mysql on Windows is an endless nightmare of problems.
chekov Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 I am testing osCommerce locally under Windows XP and after a proper test period I will move it under production server which runs under Linux. In my opinion, it should be the database that should be saved and later on moved to the production server. I have put lots of efforts on putting product infos and such to the database and don't care too much about the installation process as it's quite straight forward. If you are about to follow the standard osCommerce installation steps, then I really would recommend to think how to export your existing local database over to the production server which most probably will run on the internet. Just my 2 cents. osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 running under: LINUX with: Apache 2.0.47 PHP 4.3.1 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.11a-gamma WINDOWS XP with: Apache 2.0.47 (Win32) PHP 4.3.3 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.15
chekov Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 I am testing osCommerce locally under Windows XP and after a proper test period I will move it under production server which runs under Linux. In my opinion, it should be the database that should be saved and later on moved to the production server. I have put lots of efforts on putting product infos and such to the database and don't care too much about the installation process as it's quite straight forward. If you are about to follow the standard osCommerce installation steps, then I really would recommend to think how to export your existing local database over to the production server which most probably will run on the internet. Just my 2 cents. osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 running under: LINUX with: Apache 2.0.47 PHP 4.3.1 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.11a-gamma WINDOWS XP with: Apache 2.0.47 (Win32) PHP 4.3.3 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.15
chekov Posted November 23, 2003 Posted November 23, 2003 I am testing osCommerce locally under Windows XP and after a proper test period I will move it under production server which runs under Linux. In my opinion, it should be the database that should be saved and later on moved to the production server. I have put lots of efforts on putting product infos and such to the database and don't care too much about the installation process as it's quite straight forward. If you are about to follow the standard osCommerce installation steps, then I really would recommend to think how to export your existing local database over to the production server which most probably will run on the internet. Just my 2 cents. osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 running under: LINUX with: Apache 2.0.47 PHP 4.3.1 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.11a-gamma WINDOWS XP with: Apache 2.0.47 (Win32) PHP 4.3.3 (Zend: 1.3.0) MySQL 4.0.15
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