Help creating a test server with WAMP or something similar.

General Installation & Upgrade
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could someone please fill me in on how i would replicate my site in an offline setting, so i can test updates safely?



ive used wamp in the past, so i am pretty familiar with it. just need to know where to get started…



thanks!

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i didnt word that very well… i just need help with regards to connecting the database. i tried an import through phpMyAdmin locally, but the file is too great in size.

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Download [url]http://www.easyphp.org/[/url]

One click install of apache, php, mysql, phpmyadmin



TAR your current files, dump SQL.



Untar and create same account on mysql, import DB.



Edit cs-cart config file as needed

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[quote name=‘goodwoods’]i didnt word that very well… i just need help with regards to connecting the database. i tried an import through phpMyAdmin locally, but the file is too great in size.[/QUOTE]



You got to edit php.ini to allow larger upload value for files.

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Thanks for this info! I will look into it and report back!



Regards.