Copying entire shop to different server and trying to update?

[bydus]

Hi there, I would like to perform an automatic update on my shop, however I do not want to do this on my working one due to possible update issues. So I came up with and idea of having and exact copy of the shop and database on different address and perform update then. Can someone tell me if thats possible and maybe point me out to some guide ?

 

Regards

[Bill Dalton]

You can download XAMPP. It will install a web server, and also PHP to run the Prestshop Application and MySQL to create your database.

 

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

 

The program is easy to install but book a couple of hours to read the getting started documentation.

 

After you have installed your stack, (XAMPP), just follow the standard instructions to copy your site to a new location.

 

Please see,

http://prestashopman...another-server/

[bydus]

thanks braw!

[entrancey]

i would prefer this way as it just only need to transfer files within the server

1. in cpanel, create newfolder1

2. copy all current website files to the newfolder1

3. in phpmyadmin, copy the current website db to a new db

4. create new database user and link to the new database created in step3

5. edit file newfolder1/config/settings.inc.php and make changes to below

define('_DB_NAME_', 'ur new db name');
define('_DB_USER_', 'ur new db user');
define('_DB_PASSWD_', 'urpswd');
define('_PS_DIRECTORY_', '/newfoldername/');

6. login to bo : www.urdomain.com/newfolder1/youradminfolder using the same login credential as ur original store

7. try to perform the automatic upgrade


if successfully updated, you may follow link below for the next tutorial
[url="http://www.unblockwww.com/solved/how-to-auto-update-prestashop-in-a-different-folder-with-in-the-server-using-the-auto-upgrade-module/[/url]


goodluck

Edited November 18, 2013 by entrancey (see edit history)

[Puriom]

I wouldn't advise upgrade, personally.

I did it too, and many things went wrong:

Translations are lost, modules needed uninstall and reinstall, bugs appeared, etc And no answers had been given in forum, even though before those things were easy to be solved.

If you have something working, you better stay with it.

 

Unless you can have some serious help.