GrantG said:

Yep, very easily done by editing your local (ie. on your computer) HOSTS file, which is how I ran the (at the time) current - Actinic - site and the new - Interspire - site on a new server.

Hi Grant

Thanks for the help but I'm not following with regards to the 'HOSTS files'?

Apologies to the resellers - but I must warn you to only buy the software direct from Interspire, NOT through a reseller. If you buy through a reseller, your support is through the reseller, if they can't resolve it, there's an extra day wasted on getting support. It also prevents you from having access to the Client Area and thus, cannot directly obtain the latest patches, updates, etc.

Agreed grant. My advice is always buy direct unless you are getting a support contract with a reseller.

5% discount code on my website if you buy direct through my link.

Darren said:

I see grant has updated it, what are the changes made as i notice the file has got smaller?

Gabe probably used Windows 'Send to > Compressed Folder'

I used 7Zip 'Ultra' compression to give faster download speeds and use fewer bandwidth, although both are minimal differences anyway.

For the physical changes...RTFM :p lol

GrantG said:

Yep, very easily done by editing your local (ie. on your computer) HOSTS file, which is how I ran the (at the time) current - Actinic - site and the new - Interspire - site on a new server.

If you want to use 'VSP Form' (ie. customer bounces from your site to SagePay's to complete payment then bounces back to your site) - then yes, it couldn't be easier. All you need is your account name, password and encryption code.

You can try the 'online' cart version, Big Commerce (ISC and Big Commerce work independently, but you can easily transfer products between the two) - or Interspire also offer a 60-day money back guarantee on the hosted version ("Interspire Shopping Cart").

Just setting this up for our conversion from actinic to ISC
Any thoughts on using multiple domain names on one server space.

example
one server space split with 2 domain names
actinic runs on 1 domain
ISC site built on spare domain but on same server space

Or could you use a sub domain

Wes

Get a development licence from interspire and build on a spare domain with the SEs blocked and then switch domains

once its ready to deploy i can update the name servers to swap the domain to our live sites name.

Yes

in ISC I can I just update the license key in the admin panel to allow for more than 2 users to access the back end.
The development key is set to max of 2 users.
Any other things i need to update in ISC apart from the actual site name ?

Yes and no

Out of interest, on your development site that you are importing products, if you have imported products more than once, when you go to Tools > Backups > Create a Backup, what number of images are said to be getting backed up? On one site, I have just over 2000 products but 202150 (I checked using command line and this is actually correct, there are 202150 images in the product_images folder) - however, there is no chance in hell that each product has 100 images.

GrantG said:

Out of interest, on your development site that you are importing products, if you have imported products more than once, when you go to Tools > Backups > Create a Backup, what number of images are said to be getting backed up? On one site, I have just over 2000 products but 202150 (I checked using command line and this is actually correct, there are 202150 images in the product_images folder) - however, there is no chance in hell that each product has 100 images.

just imported 1243 products and had 26 fail.
The retuning information did not give much away as to which products failed but it did state that it is an image problem.

Now I have to try and work out what failed.

Kind Regards
Wes

GrantG said:

Check Tools > Backups > Create a Backup to see what number of images are going to be backed up - then try another import. Notice anything drastic?

6389 images backed up, seems a bit high for 1243 products with only one image each

wes

GrantG said:

You get one tiny, one thumb, one standard, one zoom and one full size, therefore you should have 1243 x 5 or there abouts, although this fluctuates depending on the original image size as ISC only resizes images where the image aspect is above/below a set size. So I think yours is about right - are you using v5 or v6 for the imports? If you're using V5...prepare your hard hat...upgrading to v6 will kindly duplicate your images on your behalf :thumbsdown:

latest v6 thankfully
just having fun adding products to categorys right now, this leaves actinic for dead, I have done a days work in actinic in about an hour on ISC !!!

Wes

hi, having a problem with my database, had to restore from backup as original had a corruption

now having problems with my product categories showing correctly

in the admin panel under product categories they are all showing as i would expect.
But on the website they are not showing correctly, some are missing

I have had to do a clean install on the server, and import the old database backup via myphp

Have not changed any files on the sever, basic install.

Any ideas ?

Wes

Hey Wes

Sounds like the categories cache is not updating, due to changing the database, which I have done numerous times too during development.

Go to /cache/datastore/

Ensure that both /datastore/ is Writeable (minimum 755, but I have found most hosts require at least 757 permissions).

Inside the datastore folder, there should be two php files called ChildCategories.php and RootCategories.php - these are cache files which, when they are not updated, produces the exact same issue as you describe. Delete these files, then go to the front end (ie. the homepage or any other page and press F5 to force your own browser to reload and recache). This forces ISC to re-create these cache files which both have obvious purposes.

If this solves the problem, I would advise changing the permissions to 646 as they will default as 644. You will need to delete these files every time you change the database (not adding/editing/deleting categories, but physically wiping the database clean and reinstalling another database).

Furthermore, as you say this is a clean install, go to Addons>View Addons>Check Store Permissions to highlight any other permissions issues.

wesleythorne said:

Plus you are right, after a few import/export reimports if the same products the image file has grown to about 20,000 from the initial 1100 or so

Almost, but not quite - I'm yet to find anyone using ISC with the record number if product images I have, unless of course they do actually have 202,000 products, then fair play.

renaming product category's returns an error on saving
There was a problem updating the category "CHOOSE A FLAVOUR": The value for 'catname' was not valid

I would give NuBlue a call as I had a similar problem with a client and they did "something" which fixed the problem

Log in to phpMyAdmin and select your database on the left, at the bottom of the page, you should be able to Select All then choose the 'Repair' option. Sounds like a DB problem.

wesleythorne said:

hi, just tried that, got a few repair warnings all with the same text

The storage engine for the table doesn't support r...


Not sure what it is about as it is cut short

wes

You ever find out what this was? Am having the same problem myself (tables have been repaired etc)

dave_finlayson said:

You ever find out what this was? Am having the same problem myself (tables have been repaired etc)

nope, just fixed it self after a bit.
i deleated said category created new one