Creating a dummy store

[afo]

Change the permissions on the folders/files. You should be able to do that either with your FTP client or from your webmaster panel (CPanel, most likely). It's usually best to do it through your webmaster panel. You want to limit access to the folders to most of the world. Most folders should be set to 755. Some will need to be set to less depending on the setup of your server. If there's a problem with the setting, Zen Cart may display an error message about being able to write to a certain file or folder.

[CaroleAs]

OK maybe i did something wrong along the way, but when i created my new database, i was not prompted to set a username and password. Can i go back and do it? Is it set without me knowing it? So at this point, i am not sure where i am anymore

[afo]

You should be able to go back into your webmaster panel and assign a user and password for the database.

[CaroleAs]

Is there a way to go back and check the password of previous dbase? I am getting kind of lost in all those passwords and would like to make SURE i am using the exact same one.

[CaroleAs]

When i asked my host if i could recover the password for the previous database, here was the answer:

"There is no way to recover these passwords. You need to delete the database user and then re-add it."

I kind of guessed that but wanted to make sure. Now, if i delete the database user and re-add it (with a known password) how will this affect my LIVE store??

[gjh42]

Your /includes/configure.php will have the database user and password for your original db, as it needs to use them.

If you change user/password, change the /includes/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php to match.

[schoolboy]

if i delete the database user and re-add it (with a known password) how will this affect my LIVE store??

Your live store will disappear and in its place nddbc.html will display

Do what Glenn says above, to find out what the passwd is.

[CaroleAs]

Ok i did it. I have a clone of my store, but i have two little questions:

1- how do i access to the admin now? since i didn`t change anything other than the store is now called storetest, i thought i would use the exact same link while correcting this store name, but when i do, i get this error message:

0 DB_ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED
in:
[db_cache table]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.


Did i forget something along the way?

Second question: how can i make sure that nobody visits the site an mistakenly tries to order something?

Cassel