I'm working on my first uCommerce proeject and I want to show a first draft of the uCommerce functionality to my client. I've currently got uCommerce installed locally on my dev machine and have been configuring the client's site there.
In terms of getting it online for preview purposes, would it be best to restore the local Umbraco/uCommerce db up to the remote database and then just upload all the local files to the remote server? Or do I actually need to do a fresh install on the web server?
Do I need to buy the uCommerce licence now in order to run it online for preview purposes?
The easiest approach is to just install uCommerce from scratch on the demo site if you haven't made any mods to your dev site. However, if you need to move data between environments backup/restore is the way to go.
You won't need a license key to run the demo site. uCommerce will pop up a banner telling you that it's a developer edition. You can get rid of it by using special domain names as described in Staging Sites without the Developer Edition Banner.
When you say "if you haven't made any mods to your dev site" - Do you mean mods to the code, or mods to product catalog? I've created products etc (which I'd prefer not to do again if poss) and I've made some minor changes to the category xslt file, but not really anything else.
If I go with the backup/restore option for the database, and ftp all the files up myself, are there a bunch of write permissions that need to be set manually?
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I'm working on my first uCommerce proeject and I want to show a first draft of the uCommerce functionality to my client. I've currently got uCommerce installed locally on my dev machine and have been configuring the client's site there.
In terms of getting it online for preview purposes, would it be best to restore the local Umbraco/uCommerce db up to the remote database and then just upload all the local files to the remote server? Or do I actually need to do a fresh install on the web server?
Do I need to buy the uCommerce licence now in order to run it online for preview purposes?
Thanks for your advice.
Hi Danzig,
The easiest approach is to just install uCommerce from scratch on the demo site if you haven't made any mods to your dev site. However, if you need to move data between environments backup/restore is the way to go.
You won't need a license key to run the demo site. uCommerce will pop up a banner telling you that it's a developer edition. You can get rid of it by using special domain names as described in Staging Sites without the Developer Edition Banner.
Thanks a lot Soren.
When you say "if you haven't made any mods to your dev site" - Do you mean mods to the code, or mods to product catalog? I've created products etc (which I'd prefer not to do again if poss) and I've made some minor changes to the category xslt file, but not really anything else.
If I go with the backup/restore option for the database, and ftp all the files up myself, are there a bunch of write permissions that need to be set manually?
With modifications in place it makes sense to use option two to avoid having to redo the entire thing.
You should be fine with write perms if you FTP the solution up.
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