How to Upgrade
How to upgrade an old oscommerce website to CE Phoenix
If you are running an old version of oscommerce you really need to upgrade it to CE Phoenix - it is fully responsive (mobile friendly) and frequently updated. Old versions of osCommerce are not mobile friendly, no longer updated and run slower.
The ease of the upgrade or transfer process is dependent on the modifications and third party add-ons that you may have installed on your old shop. It can be done yourself or seek a professional partner to do it for you - see CE Phoenix Development Partners
Follow these steps to make the upgrade easier.
- Install the latest CE 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.
- The next step is transferring data from the old database to the new.
- There are some differences in the database table structures between an old oscommerce and CE Phoenix so some of the old database tables need to be updated before transfer.
- In the new CE Phoenix database, download and save 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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