I just went production with my Auction site, but now that I have done that. I don't have a good place to make changes so that I can test them before I move them to the Production site. I tried to copy the auction directory to auction_test and the auctions to auctions_test and then changed the sysconfig.pm file to point to the new directories and paths and then when I went to the admin for the new test site, it was still using the Production sysconfig and if I changed any settings it would change the Production Settings. Is it not possible to run multiple instances of this software on one webhost account? I really need to have a test site. What do other people do for testing?
That's exactly what I did. I changed everything in the sysconfig.pm as I stated in my original message.
I go and login to the auction_test/admin and all the links point to the production site. Doesn't it not work because you are storing those variable values in global variables? So isn't it reading the global variables already defined for the production site? What else could I be missing?
All configuration stored in the file Sysconfig.pm not in SQL. Still no other possibilites, it is the only location for paths and URLs and all admin settings.
I understand that all the settings are stored in sysconfig.pm and as I stated I have changed all those. Aren't you loading those values in global variables? Has anyone put two different versions of the auction software on the same web hosting account?\
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Thanks,\
Philip
Did you set up new sql settings in your host cpanel? We did the same thing on our site at escriptstore.biz when we were playing with it but had to make new settings just as if it were another site or it will run into your main site.
Hope this helps.
George
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I understand that all the settings are stored in sysconfig.pm and as I stated I have changed all those. Aren't you loading those values in global variables? Has anyone put two different versions of the auction software on the same web hosting account? Thanks, Philip