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Topic: Making Backup Site For Testing Updates

Posted By: Ludwig
Subject: Making Backup Site For Testing Updates
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 8:40am

I am planning to upgrade from 3.12 to 4.5 and I want to make a backup site to test the updates before doing it on the live site. I already have my site backed up and my database backed up... once I upload these to my new hosting, what all should I do to make sure nothing I do on the test site affects my live site? Don't I have to change the database string or something to point to the database on the backup test site? Is that all I have to do? Do I need to change the domain name as well since I am using a different domain on the backup test site?

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 8:47am

if your store is in a "productcart" or "store" folder, you need only copy that folder to "productcartdev" or "storedev", and perform your testing in the copied folder.

So long as what you do does not put the site into a loop (this could be caused by some erroneous code that reads database records and never exits the loop), or that your updates don't somehow trash the production data, then you should be fine. We are altering and upgrading stores constantly and that is precisely the procedure we follow on most projects.

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Posted By: Ludwig
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:26am

Yes but if you make a dev folder on the same hosting it will point to the live database right? I really don't even want to mess with the live database until I see that no issues will occur.

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:31am

well, then in that case you also make a copy of the database and edit storeconstants.asp to point to the DEV database.

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Posted By: Ludwig
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:39am

So I just edit the data source in this line? private const scDSN=

What about this line <%private const scCrypPass="? Isn't this the license key?

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:48am

the connection string is in that page as well. look for private const scDSN.

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Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:51am

don't mess with the key.

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Posted By: Ludwig
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:52am

Yes private const scDSN= is what I wrote in my previous post that points to the database... is there a safe way to test that changes on the test site aren't affecting my live database? Maybe just make a small change to a product on the test site and see if it affects the live site?

Posted By: Ludwig
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 9:56am

When I setup the new test database it's asking if I want to install DSN or ASP Schema, do I check these?

Posted By: Greg Dinger
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 10:13am

You now understand how to establish a dev copy of your store and database. Unless you have confidence in your skills, I'd get someone who is proficient with this work to assist you on a hands-on basis. I can't really take you step by step through this. Sorry.

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Posted By: Ludwig
Date Posted: 22-January-2012 at 10:27am

I figured it out if I have too many issues I'll hire someone to help out.