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How to test ubercart on a running ecommerce website?

Submitted by apeee on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 03:29
apeee
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 Joined: 12/11/2007

I've a very simple ecommerce website which I want to transform to ubercart. Can I create a folder in root directory (public_html) and make my ubercart website their in first and then just copy all the files and folders to the root? Will this work?

Or, Can I test this on another website and then copy all files and folders to the real one? Is there a problem with database when doing so??
permalink #1 Tue, 06/24/2008 - 09:59
himagarwal
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 Joined: 06/24/2008

I've almost the same question.

I'm running a personal website currently, which I'll be converting to a income generating source for me by ubercart, but I don't want my website to go offline during work and experiments.

??

permalink #2 Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:03
Ryan

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AdministratorHead Code Monkey - I eat bugs.

I've used this workflow w/ no trouble in the past:

1. Already have a running website I don't want to mess up.
2. Create a subdirectory in there and upload Drupal.
3. Create a new database in MySQL.
4. Set the site up using the default site's settings.php.
5. Once I'm done, zipping up the old site/removing it from the server.
6. Moving the code from the subdirectory to the document root.
7. Browsing around to make sure everything is fine.

You really just need to look out for hard coding paths in your nodes. Everything else should be handled relative to the Drupal index.php so you shouldn't have to change a thing...

permalink #3 Tue, 06/24/2008 - 10:20
himagarwal
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 Joined: 06/24/2008

It's like babies work, copying and pasting, I'll be aware of the hard-coding that I'll do.........Thanks dude.

Man, the support team here is uber-fast.