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Cloning oscommerce website for development

Tue, 02/12/2008 - 16:13 — wizap
  1. Create dev.domain.tld site in hosting control panel.
  2. Create the database and user.
  3. Copy over the database and files.
  4. Update the database and user info in "includes/configure.php" and "admin/includes/configure.php".
  5. Also update the file paths in the configure.php files.
  6. Update the links to point to the development site:
    $ for x in `grep -r www.domain.tld * -l` ; do perl -pi \
      -e 's/www\.domain\.tld/dev\.domain\.tld/g' $x ; done
  7. Optionally disable SSL in "includes/configure.php".
  8. Change ownership of files as required.
  9. Login in as admin and change the cache location.
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