Swapping one Zen Cart for another...

[MeltDown]

I worked it out: I had indeed missed one mod and its incomplete install was throwing the error.

[MeltDown]

How does restoring the old database into a new location affect email? Test messages sent from the site are not received, although I have updated the basic email info within the admin and created site-specific email addresses.

[afo]

Check the email addresses in admin>configuration>e-mail options. They're probably the values from the "old" domain after the database restore.

[MeltDown]

Check the email addresses in admin>configuration>e-mail options. They're probably the values from the "old" domain after the database restore.

I had done all that, as a standard, which is why I was surprised when mail wasn't arriving. However, it finally hit me: I always create a forwarding account so that all my mail goes to one place. Yep, I had neglected to do that. It would have been a long wait!!

[afo]

Computers can be SO picky!

[sailor10]

Yes, the config files contain the database info. If you want to use the existing database, you shouldn't have to change that info. If you want to create another database for the new cart, you'll have to change that info. That's why I suggested you could do a completely new install which will ask for that info and generate the config files correctly. Then you'd just have to copy your custom template folders/files and copy the current database (do a backup of the old database and restore it to the new one using phpMyAdmin from your webmaster panel).

I am new to Zen Cart, do you the includes folder? of further down the directory stream the Templates folder only. I installed locally and now want to copy the cart and database to my website with all the changes I have made.

Thank you for your assistance as this seems to be identical to the other request.