Duplicate shop

Whats the quickest way to create a duplicate shop on the same server?

For eg. I have one at mydomin.com/shop

I was to reproduce it at mydomain.com/shop2 preferably using a second database

I want to do this to try various changes while have no downtime on my main shop...

so, whats the quickest way to duplicate it all?

Cheers!
Dave

Copy the contents of /shop into /shop2.

Create a database for the cart in /shop2.

Use phpMyAdmin to backup the database for /shop and copy it to the new database.

Edit /shop2/admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php to point to /shop2 and the new database.

That should be it.

You could also create the database, do a clean install of Zen Cart into /shop2 using the new database and then copy over the data (using phpMyAdmin as described above). Then you'd just have to copy over your custom template.

Thanks for you help, will give that a try. :smile: