I want to use www.mydomain.com/ instead of www.mydomain.com/xcart. How do I move my store?

If you want to move your site to root directory, you should move all the files from the directory where X-Cart is installed to root directory. After that you should find /config.php and replace the following string:

$xcart_web_dir ="/xcart";

by this:

$xcart_web_dir ="";

Do not forget to make backup copies of the original files from root directory which have names similar with the names of files from /xcart directory (for example, index.html), because they will be replaced when you move your store.

Note that if you store product and category images on the file system, you should correct links to images manually after moving your store.

If you want to change the location of php scripts used in customer, administrator and provider zones, you should open the file top.inc.php and edit the values of DIR_CUSTOMER, DIR_ADMIN and DIR_PROVIDER constants.

If you have any problems with moving your store, please provide us with FTP/SSH access to your host, and we will help you to move your store. There is a special form in your personal message board ("Access information" section) where you can securely post your access info.

Please enter your HelpDesk account, go to the 'Communication center' and find the thread 'Thank you for ordering Installation service'. There you'll see the list of information which our engineers need to start the installation. You are supposed to quote that message and provide all the necessary details for each list unit. Then we'll gladly go on.

1. HTTP & HTTPS URLs to your server (with directory name, e.g. www.domain.com/store, www.domain.com/shop or www.domain.com for web root directory)
2. Temporarily HTTP URL to your server if your domain name is not pointing to it yet
3. FTP URL to load files (with path, e.g. ftp.domain.com/www, ftp.domain.com/htdocs)
4. FTP username & password
5. MySQL hostname (e.g. localhost, mysql.domain.com)
6. MySQL username & password
7. MySQL database name
8. Control panel URL, username & password or MySQL root access (if the database is not setup yet)
9. States of which country (or countries) do you prefer to upload to X-Cart database: US, Canada, UK, Australia, Spain or 'No states'? Any combination is acceptable depending of the coverage area of your business. You can choose 'All states' if you sell worldwide.
10. Secure Shell (SSH) or Windows Remote Desktop access is required if you want us to configure/install PGP/GnuPG, PHP, MySQL, Web Server software or SSL certificate. In other cases this point is optional, but having been provided it may significantly speed up the installation procedure.

For the transfer we need the above information both for old and new server.

Revision date: Jan 31, 2006

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