I'm brand new here -- this is my first post, so thanks for your patience with me.

I recently started playing around with Zen Cart on a hosted Linux server, but I now want to continue customization on my Windows PC and upload only after I've made all my changes. I found this posting: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ighlight=xampp
detailing how to set up Zen Cart on WinXP, but rather than install a brand new version of Zen Cart on my PC, I'd like to keep all the changes that I've already made to Zen Cart.

So, should I follow the directions in the link above, or should I follow directions more like these http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Switch_Servers which detail how to switch servers?

I know I'll need to insall xampp on my PC using the instructions in the first link, but I am not sure what to do when it comes to installing the Zen Cart files and database.

In other news, I just ordered the book by Goh Koon Hoek and am anxiously awaiting its arrival, but want to get going in the interim.