2 zen carts on the same mydomain.com

[dharma]

Hello!

I have ZC currently running on my main site and have my test zen cart running with a different web host. Although both webhosts are Linux the are configured differently so what works on one does not work on the other.

I was thinking of placing my test zen cart on the same server as my real site running zc so they are both with the same webhost.

Is it ok to have a live site on mydomain.com and a test site on mydomain/dev ?

my ssl is secure.mydomain.com

I would use separate databases of course.

I am new to ecommerce carts and php/mysql

Is this a good or bad idea?

any suggestions? or no-nos?

[kobra]

Yes, This is how this is done by most....

Main store normally at the root of your account and an evaluation/test account in another folder ??test - eval - or?? or in a sub-domain...

Of course with its own DB

[dharma]

Great!

I thought that might be the simplest way, but was afraid of file conflicts, as I don't know much about how php files communicate to each other.

Thanks for the advice!

[kuroi]

Purists will throw their hands up when I say this, but in very simplistic terms the php files communicate with each other and the database by way of the includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php files.

As long as these settings are defined to point to different places on your server and different databases, your two (or more) Zen Carts won't interfere with each other.

[dharma]

Gave it a try....using this guide:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=54

mydomain.com/dev files kept referencing/going back to the mydomain.com web pages.

I checked the configure files/paths...all seemed correct.

I deleted all the /dev files+db in fears it would start to corrupt my live site. I hope I haven't messed it up already.

It all seems a bit too close to home anyway. I guess I will continue to do my testing at the other webhost, or just switch hosts.

[dharma]

Gave it a try....using this guide:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=54

mydomain.com/dev files kept referencing/going back to the mydomain.com web pages.

I checked the configure files/paths...all seemed correct.

I deleted all the /dev files+db in fears it would start to corrupt my live site. I hope I haven't messed it up already.

It all seems a bit too close to home anyway. I guess I will continue to do my testing at the other webhost, or just switch hosts.

I gave it another shot using a different method:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

The new install worked perfectly, pages pointing to the right pages etc. after I over wrote the new install files with my live old server files/db and used the fix key cache tool, same problems of the test pages pointing to the live site

what did I do wrong?

[kuroi]

I gave it another shot using a different method:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=100

The new install worked perfectly, pages pointing to the right pages etc. after I over wrote the new install files with my live old server files/db and used the fix key cache tool, same problems of the test pages pointing to the live site

what did I do wrong?

I suspect that you set it up correctly, but that you old files included your old configure.php files. So when you loaded them up, you overwrote your new configure.php files and pointed everything back to your old site.

[dharma]

I tried it again, and the /dev index page loads correctly and all the links point to /dev/images etc..., once I click a link and move to another page I am still in /dev but all the links point to the live pages at mydomain.com

Here are my configs: is there a obvious error?

admin/includes:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com/dev1');
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com/dev1');

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/dev1/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/admin/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/');

includes/configure:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com/dev1');

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/');

I have tried adding /dev1 to a few defines, and a page loads bit with no stylesheet

I have Ultimate_SEO_URLs installed, could that be this issue?

[kuroi]

I've indicated some corrections below for the admin/includes/ files

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com'); <-- should not have /dev1
define('HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_CATALOG_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com'); <-- should not have /dev1

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/dev1/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_ADMIN', '/dev1/admin/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');

define('DIR_FS_ADMIN', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/admin/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/');

and for the includes/ file

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://secure. mydomain.com'); <-- should not have /dev1

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/dev1/');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/xxx/xxx/user/www/dev1/');

[dharma]

Thank you for your corrections. Unfortunately the issue still exists . I compared your corrections with my live site configs, everything looks right, I am at a loss.