Moving to nopcommerce 4.2 from a different shopping cart

Hi there

I currently run a live ecommerce site using an unrelated shopping cart.

I want to move this LIVE SITE to the nopcommerce 4.2 shopping cart.

However I want to prepare the new nopcommerce in the background without causing any down time to my current cart -  doing it behind the scenes would enable me  to work on my nopcommerce site while the live site is still running.

does nopcommerce have an option for this?

can you launch a nopcommerce site on different url and then switch it to the live url by chaning the settings.txt file?

any advise greatly receievd !

Thanks !

Yes you can easily change the domain name in Administration.

The domain name is related to a store
In fact with the multistore configuation you can have a number of stores running of the same domain
i.e. store1.yourdomain.com and store2.yourdomain.com

One option is to setup your DNS to have the current store on www.yourdomain.com and a new test store at newstore.yourdomain.com (pointing DNS at new website ip). Then at change over turn off old site and update new store to include the www. domain name

If you have a look at the demo site you can see the configuration for stores

https://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/Admin/Store/Edit/1

But, it's not so easy if your sites are not on the same IP address.  DNS propagation for IP address change can take 24 hours.

Thanks for the fast replies.

If i understand correctly I would just need to change the domain name in the store admin area ?

https://admin-demo.nopcommerce.com/Admin/Store/Edit/1

would i need to edit any files ? settings.txt etc ?

Thanks again !

sorry another question

I want to bulk import my catgeories and products on the test site but i dont know what to put in the imahe url

i..e

E:\domains\test.mydomain.co.uk\wwwroot\content\images\thumbs\brother.png

or the real domain ?

E:\domains\mydomain.co.uk\wwwroot\content\images\thumbs\brother.png

i will be doing alot of categories so I dont want to have to reimport everything...

[quote=toadman]...bulk import my categories and products on the test site but i don't know what to put in the image url..."

(It's best to create separate posts/topics for different issues)


You should create one sample product with a sample image, in Advanced mode (toggle), and then Export it.  That export should be your template.  Note that the image path references the hosted server's file system.  That server is where you need to put your images when you do the import.  If necessary, FTP the images from your old site, and FTP them into a temporary folder in your new server.  Test import with one product first... modify that exported 'template' you created - modify the picture URL to reference an image file in your temp folder.

hi there
thanks for the reply
this image question is relevant to this topic. as it is above the test site compared to the live site.
If i ref the images on the test domain and then move to the live domain im thinking that the images will still be stuck on the test domain ! They wont move over.

E:\domains\test.domain.com\wwwroot\content\images\thumbs\brother.png

The default is for the images to be stored in the database.

This is an option in the settings

Once you import the images and set up the store there is nothing more to do

They are exported from the database when accessed and so they will be accesssible after you change the domain name

Thanks Yidna

do i have to ref the whole structure url in the excel file ? ie.,

E:\domains\test.domain.com\wwwroot\content\images\thumbs\brother.png

or can i just use a shortened version?

\wwwroot\content\images\thumbs\brother.png

Do what New York said. Setup one product with an image in Admin then export that product.
Look in the export file to see the file location
Us that as your template to import other products.