Hi,

Quote Originally Posted by Ousel View Post
Sorry for the incorrect terminology. I copy my zencart files from a live site onto the localhost, and I import the database from the livesite to the localhost, which should give an exact copy of my live site on my localhost.
Yes, we do the same, it's how we rollout websites from our development machine to our live server. We actually use a shared subversion repository so it is the "backup" and both the local and live instances of the websites are working copies checked out from this repository. Very handy way to work!

There are always some differences though, like the paths in the configure.php files etc. so we don't consider one a backup of another, we have local config files which apply only for the server/site in question.

You have to be careful in such a situation that the server encvironment is similar enough that you don't need to customise any more files per site (the configure files should be the only files that need changing, along with the session write directory value in eh configuration table).

Quote Originally Posted by Ousel View Post
I know very little about using WAMP. Is it possible to have 2 websites on it each with an .htaccess file, or are they conflicting?
When you say WAMP, did you install Apache, PHP etc. yourself?

Check that the VirtualHost configs for the two local sites are the same.. you may have enabled overrides in one (AllowOverides) but not in the other, meaning the .htaccess file won't work in one.

Hope that helps.

All the best..

Conor
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