Offline Site for Testing

[g2ktcf]

I have been working to get an offline development site setup. So far I have the following working on a Windows XP Professional SP3 laptop...

1. XAMPP (Apache, PHP and MySQL)
2. XDebug
3. NetBeans (still trying get everything connected)
4. Local copy of zen-cart
5. Database backup file database.sql

Now, I am having issues trying to setup the zen-cart database. I cannot seem to import the sql file. I am using phpmyadmin and it returns a MySQL error...

#1044 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'information_schema'

This database appears on my localhost as well as my hosting account. It appears that I am trying to create a new db with the same name. I am sort of lost here...any advice on what to do?

[g2ktcf]

I am getting better at answering my own post

I had actually picked up two databases in my sqldump. I went back to the host, dl a new sql file of just my database. I created a new blank database in the localhost with the same name. Using phpmyadmin, I selected this db and clicked "import". Everything went like clockwork after than.

Now to see if I can get the Zen-Cart php files to talk to the db......

[g2ktcf]

whew...that took a while. It turns out that I have actually never installed Zen-Cart and I did not understand the process. I am hosted at GoDaddy and the install was done by them.

After one horrible failed attempt in which I deleted my new database, I have a local copy working great. I am going to work on seeing if I can get NetBeans and XDebug working tomorrow.