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[KMM12345678]

Hi guys becouse you guys were alot of help to me a few years ago and again tank you for the support you guys really helped me undestand things.

so basiclly i have a website running os commerce online merchant v2.2 rc2a that is running wonderfully and is ok no i wanted to open an other shop website so i brought a new website dormain and a new hosting packadge to host the new site. i was wonderingif i am able to just ftp to the host copy all the files from my current site and then upload them to the new site.

also can i install the oscommerce on the site fresh and then upload all the files from the curent site onto the new one or will they not be compatibal with like 2.3 and 3. os commerce.

if you could help please would like to get a new website up and running. the main reason for this is that the website i had desgined by someone and he is asking for like £800. so i thought might as well learn from the best you guys.

[Jack_mcs]

No, you can't do that. RC2 and 2.3 are not compatible. You baiscally have to start over if you want to use 2.3. It is possible to upgrade but it simpy isn't worth, in my opinion. If you don't mind starting over, then install 2.3 and proceed. If you don't want to do that, then copy your existing site and apply any security changes it might be missing. The result will be about the same.

[KMM12345678]

kk so what i have done is i have downloaded via ftp all the files from my current site and have uploaded them on to the new site. but when i go to the new site it comes up as 404 page not found. please can u inform in in what i have done wrong.

thanks for the help mate but.

[DunWeb]

@KMM12345678,

Did you change the two configure.php files to reflect the new path and domain name ? Did you also point it to your new database ?



Chris

[KMM12345678]

Thank you again im not very skilled in os commerce and im just learning. i am gonna have a look for them and when i have found them and opend them up what do i look for

[DunWeb]

@KMM12345678,

you will find them in the:

/includes/configure.php

Change this to suit your new site path:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/content/abc/yoursite.com/html/');


/admin/includes/configure.php

Change these to suit your new site path:

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', '/home/abc/yourwebsite.com/html');
define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/home/abc/yourwebsite.com/html/admin');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/abc/yourwebsite.com/html/');


Chris