How to Upgrade
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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 - it is modular, running on Bootstrap 4 and PHP 7.3. Old versions of osCommerce are no longer supported, and many of them run on outdated, slower, versions of PHP.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.
- In this case exclude the sample data during the installation procedure.
- There are differences in the database table structures between an old oscommerce and Phoenix so the old database needs to be updated.
- In the new Phoenix database, download the configuration and configuration_group tables - choose the option for data AND structure.
- In the new Phoenix database, download all the other tables - choose the option for structure only.
- In the old database, download all the tables except configuration and configuration_group - choose the option for structure only.
- Compare the SQL files that
- Transfer data from your old database to the new database - see phpMyAdmin.
- Take the time to make sure the structure of the database you are copying is the same as the destination before you copy.
- Do not copy the tables configuration and configuration_group.
- 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.
- Check for new modules to replace your old ones - many have been updated to run on Phoenix with no core code change.
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