Best Way To Test New Themes?

General General Questions
1

Simple enough, as topic. What would be the best way for me to test new themes with my current website without killing everything?

2

install a new version for development purposes in a sub directory blocked by robots txt

or set one up on your local machine

3

You can use this instruction to make a copy of the store:

4

Hi eCom,



I followed those instructions to the letter. I'm installing on XAMPP.



All works up until I try moving my old store across. I can install a fresh store on the testing server no problem. Its at step 4 I encounter problems.



“Copy all CS-Cart files to the new server. Make sure that the modified and newly created files have been successfully copied and have overwritten the corresponding original files.”



For this step, I am copying everything from the public_html on my FTP to the c:\xampp\htdocs\cscart (the folder that contains the fresh install). I copy everything across then I get this error.







Any idea?

5

It is required to check server error logs. I cannot answer on your question at the moment

6

The process that is making the error is the copying of files from website to testing server (xampp).



I am copying the entire public_html from the FTP onto my desktop,



I'm then copying the the contents of the public_html folder into the fresh install folder of CS cart in the XAMPP directory.



Is this what I should be doing?