By nwcoraldraft on

I have a site up and running with Drupal 5.x, e-commerce, and a few other modules. It has been running for about a year or so. Its running great, but just doesn't have all the funcionality that I need.

I want to run Drupal 6.x, with Ubercart, several optional/add-on modules that go with Ubercart, and a couple other modules.

So heres my question. I have another site that is just idle and doesn't really have anything on it. Can I build the new version of my first site, on my second site. Then when I have it "ready to go" copy and paste the folders into my first site?

If my question is confusing Ill try to refraise it. Just let me know.

Doran

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dunkoh’s picture

dunkoh commented

It would be possible, but...

Two slightly different suggestions:
1. create a duplicate of your site at test.yourdomain.com in a separate drupal6 directory on the server, import in your database data

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2. I would suggest testing it all on your computer locally and then putting up the files/folders once you know it's golden. Why butcher your other site? Plus it allows you to try things out down the road before making them live on the site.

If you don't already have apache/php/mysql on your computer, you can get an easy installable bundle via Acquia http://acquia.com/downloads (the Stack installer is what you want, only for windows or mac at this time)

Ideally the best test would be to get an export(dump) of your database for your ecommerce site onto your computer and import into mysql there, so you can test the data as it is on the live site. phpmyadmin, or something similar through your host's control panel should allow this.

Lots of assumptions here on your experience level... sorry if I insulted... just didn't want to have a bunch of back and forth comments before we got to the meat of the suggestions

nwcoraldraft’s picture

nwcoraldraft commented

Great thanks.

Also, How do I add a solid colored border around an existing theme? My old webmistress, did it with the 5.x site. But I cant seem to find what was changed to do that.

Doran

dunkoh’s picture

dunkoh commented

If you're talking about having a background color behind the page, you would want to change or add the background-color style for the body class in the css file in the theme for your site. Then making sure you have a color set for the page class so that it isn't the same as the body.

If you're actually talking about a "border" about 1 or 2 px thick, then you'll likely look at the page class in css to add the border to, or sometimes it might be called wrapper, or page-wrapper.

Using firebug plugin in Firefox would help find which css class you would need to change.

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nwcoraldraft commented

Not looking for a couple px thick border.

I think your first suggestion is what I am looking for. How do I do that. Sorry I am new at this. Thank you. Here is the "old" site. www.fishtankpeople.com I like how its framed.

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Hueij commented

If you mean the grey border around the content area, it is defined in style.css on line 250.

.sticky {
   background-color:#EEEEEE;
   border:1px solid #DDDDDD;
   padding:0.5em;
   }

Use Firebug to find out were to apply that rule on your new site.

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