I currently have an ecommerce site but it doesn't have some of the functions I need. I liked the look of the demo site here and playing around in it, it seems pretty straight forward, Plus all the modules available. Now looking at the different Drupal versions available I have no cluse where to start. As I said it is an ecommerce site mainly, but I do have a lot of information and my site is used for reference and IDing items by many visitors. What I need is Paypal express which appears to be included, Google Feed creater and uploader, Google checkout and SEO links, Meta tags and when an item is sold out to still have the product's page available to view, even with zero quantity, which may be an option included, I couldn't tell in the demo.
Now I want to install it on a subdomain to get it how I want and testing it and to move 4000 or so items into it's database. When it's ready, is this a simple move, to move the files into the main domain when ready, with maybe just config setting changes to keep it working, plus to keep the SEO links intact, or will it require another install then connect to existing DB.
Thanks
Dan
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Moving your apps and data
Moving your apps and data from test to production site won't be that much of a problem once you are comfortable with setting up your Drupal site with e-commerce application. It is preferable to set up a new database in the production site than using the test site database as it is possible to do a lot of experimental work on the test site which is not relevant in the production site and at times can be a source of conflict.
Drupal comes with Drupal e-commerce and Ubercart modules to set up your site. Until recently they both have up to 6.x stable version but none seemed to have 7.x version. I think Drupal e-commerce has future plan of upgrade to 7.x but Ubercart does not. There is also a module called Commerce which is very recently introduced. You need to check current status of these modules in their respective pages.