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<big>'''How to upgrade an old oscommerce website to Phoenix'''</big> | <big>'''How to upgrade an old oscommerce website to Phoenix'''</big> | ||
| − | If you are running an old version of oscommerce you really need to upgrade it to Phoenix. | + | If you are running an old version of oscommerce you really need to upgrade it to Phoenix. Pre-Phoenix version of osCommerce are no longer supported, and many of them run on outdated, slower, versions of PHP. |
Follow these steps to make the upgrade easy. | Follow these steps to make the upgrade easy. | ||
*Install Phoenix into a new directory/folder on your current website - see <big>'''[[How to Create a Test Shop]]''' </big> for instructions. | *Install Phoenix into a new directory/folder on your current website - see <big>'''[[How to Create a Test Shop]]''' </big> for instructions. | ||
| − | *Transfer database tables from your old database to the new database - see <big>'''[[phpMyAdmin]]''' </big> | + | *Transfer database tables from your old database to the new database - see <big>'''[[phpMyAdmin]]''' </big>. Take the time to make the structure of the database you are copying is the same as the destination before you copy. |
*When your new Phoenix shop is ready, choose a quiet time for your shop or install a html landing index page to notify customers - delete all files from htdocs - change configure files in Phoenix shop to their new root/path - copy all files from the sub-directory up to htdocs. | *When your new Phoenix shop is ready, choose a quiet time for your shop or install a html landing index page to notify customers - delete all files from htdocs - change configure files in Phoenix shop to their new root/path - copy all files from the sub-directory up to htdocs. | ||
Revision as of 14:03, 8 October 2019
How to upgrade an old oscommerce website to Phoenix
If you are running an old version of oscommerce you really need to upgrade it to Phoenix. Pre-Phoenix version of osCommerce are no longer supported, and many of them run on outdated, slower, versions of PHP.
Follow these steps to make the upgrade easy.
- Install Phoenix into a new directory/folder on your current website - see How to Create a Test Shop for instructions.
- Transfer database tables from your old database to the new database - see phpMyAdmin . Take the time to make the structure of the database you are copying is the same as the destination before you copy.
- When your new Phoenix shop is ready, choose a quiet time for your shop or install a html landing index page to notify customers - delete all files from htdocs - change configure files in Phoenix shop to their new root/path - copy all files from the sub-directory up to htdocs.
