I spent several weeks designing my site offline on my local computer which is running windows xp. Now I am ready to put it online but my host says that they use Linux servers and cannot transfer my site. Is there any way to transfer from Windows to Linux or did I just waste 2 months of my life?
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26 Jul 2007, 11:37 PM #1
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Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
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26 Jul 2007, 11:58 PM #2
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
It can be moved.
These FAQs talk about the process:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=54
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=99
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Switch_Servers.
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27 Jul 2007, 02:08 AM #3
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
They might be referring to their being able to transfer from your local...Now I am ready to put it online but my host says that they use Linux servers and cannot transfer my site.
Do this all the time as the files and the DB are portable and only a few edits required. But you will have to FTP your files and create the DB and apply the backup to it.Zen-Venom Get Bitten
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27 Jul 2007, 12:37 PM #4
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
Yes, I am trying to transfer from my local machine. So basically I do a fresh install on the host server, ftp all my files except the config files, and then upload my old database?
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27 Jul 2007, 12:42 PM #5
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
Originally Posted by kobra
What are the edits required?
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27 Jul 2007, 03:29 PM #6
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
Anyone?
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27 Jul 2007, 05:22 PM #7
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
I did this a few months ago and there are a few things to watch for.
#1 Read the FAQ's that Dr. Byte pointed out.
#2 Your Windows server didn't care about case sensitive things like image names so Image.JPG and image.jpg are two different files on Linux. Also dir structure, Custom and custom are two different places.
#3 Your configure.php in the ../includes folder and the ../admin/includes folder need to point to your new server and url's. Path's for "easy populate""google sitemap" "sql backup" and other mods need to be checked also.
All in all it is relatively painless
Good Luck
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27 Jul 2007, 09:57 PM #8
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Re: Transfer from Windows to Linux Server
Yes, that sums it up. Originally Posted by hyperlite635
LibertyFlag raises some important points about case-sensitivity issues to keep in mind..
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