Hi,
What's the best way to setup a test Opencart site? i.e. on the customer's server, but not live to the general public until it's all set up? Is there an option for this in the admin panel? If there isn't then what's the easiet, least amount of changes way of doing it please?
Thanks,
Simon
Just in case anyone out there is in the least bit interested the way I have solved this issue is by adding an index.html page in the root directory, alongside the Opencart index.php file. The server I'm using gives priority to the .html file over the .php file so serves the .html file to the user when they visit the domain. Hence visitors to the site get the 'Coming Soon' page while we design and develop the shop (almost) silently alongside.
Hope this is of help to someone
Hope this is of help to someone
Thank you, yes! Its a great help. I'm new here and totally confused. My question is, once I set up the html site can I then turn it into a public access site without having to re-do the whole thing? very clever solution, by the way. I hope your store's going well.Vynl wrote:Just in case anyone out there is in the least bit interested the way I have solved this issue is by adding an index.html page in the root directory, alongside the Opencart index.php file. The server I'm using gives priority to the .html file over the .php file so serves the .html file to the user when they visit the domain. Hence visitors to the site get the 'Coming Soon' page while we design and develop the shop (almost) silently alongside.
Hope this is of help to someone
You just remove the the index.html file for it to be live
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You could also have set-up protected directory on your root folder (if your host control panel allows it)
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You could also have set-up protected directory on your root folder (if your host control panel allows it)
Another suggestion - set up Opencart in a subfolder on the live site (eg, /testshop) then cloak the subfolder from search engines by using robots.txt. If there's no other site on the domain, you'd still need an index.html as a holding page.
If anyone's really nosy they'll find it, but they'd have to be very keen to bother.
If anyone's really nosy they'll find it, but they'd have to be very keen to bother.
I have a similar question, I have a site up and running and want to change the theme and a few other things in a test environment. Is it better to create a subdomain or a sub folder? When I copy everything over from the current site, do I need to change the configuration as if I was moving servers?
Do I need to change setting with the store as well then?
Thanks,
Do I need to change setting with the store as well then?
Thanks,
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