luke.c21hygiene Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Hello all, I know this is probably going to be a silly question, but I have to ask... Is it possible to duplicate our prestashop shop so that I can use it with a second domain, here's the kicker.. it doesn't want to be a shop.. just an information website. Basically I have been asked to create a second website that will be a different domain, they just want it to be an information website for certain products on our current shop. They want to keep the current theme and layout just minus the option to buy items.. Regards Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmaster Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Of course that is possible. There are lots of forum posts about moving/copying webshops (usually from localhost to server and back). And in Settings->Products you can set a shop to catalogue mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 That's actually a lot easier than I was expecting to disable the shop feature! thanks for getting back to me so fast. As for the copying the website, I have no experience with anything like this so its a bit of a challenge. We use a website called Softaculous to install software and things like that on our domain. This is where the prestashop is installed. It actually has a feature that allows me to clone a website, could I do that and just replace the url with the new domain? or would that be too easy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestaHeroes USA Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 before doing so you must look at 2nd copy structure to 'avoid' duplicate seo situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmaster Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 https://www.templatemonster.com/help/prestashop-1-6-x-how-to-move-your-website-from-one-domain-to-another.html#gref Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Right, we use a script library called Softaculous which manages and installs the prestashop feature on our domain. It has an option for cloning the website we currently have, you just input the new domain and copy. I have tried doing this but when the new website is created when I go to its url it just redirects me to the current/old website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 This is because some domain related data is stored in the database. ps_shop_url table or so. Furthermore your database configuration file needs attention. If you don't set up a new database, both shops would use the same database and hence you would always redirected to one of the shops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Hi Scully, Thanks for the advice. This has all been dumped on me and I have no clue what I'm doing really when it comes to databases so I have no clue where any of that information/ files would even be. I imagine they would be somewhere in the public_html directory on the server but as for where, I have no clue. I have tried searching for database.c21 in the entire server but nothing is coming up. I'm speaking to a Softaculous technician also, but he never even mentioned either of those things. I have sent him your help in hopes that he'll be able to help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) A standard copy or clone script will not work for prestashop out from the box. Even experienced users fail from time to time to properly clone shops. Probably better ask a service provider for help before messing up unintentionally ? I'm on a mobile device right now an cannot post all details to look for. Edited July 27, 2017 by Scully (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Ah I see, explains why I'm having an issue with it then. I have been speaking with the technician about it but the last step they gave me didn't really help.. This is what the last emails said - "it looks like there are a lot of additional files and folders present in your source installation directory. It can be possible there is some file/folder missing which is causing the redirection issue as I have seen the database and the URLs are replaced there while cloning. Can you please confirm none of them are a part of your installation." "The files and directories that are unchecked in the list will not be cloned as they are not considered as part of the installation. Please check the files or directories that are part of your installation and save." So, I went into the folders/files and checked everything but still all it does when I go to the new URL is redirect me to the old website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) Luke, you don't listen to me! There are settings such as shop url stored in the database. The database is NOT adapted automatically. As long as you don't set up a separate database and change the shop url, it will never work. Search the forum for cloning. There are many topics on this. And its NOT done just by copying files!!! Edited July 27, 2017 by Scully (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 I'm sorry you think that I'm not listening but I am, its just confusing as its all new to me. When I run the clone utility I need to specify the domain I want to use for the clone and also I need to assign a name for the new domain. So, like you said it needs a new url and database, well it has both of them. Old website database is presta918 url is c21hygiene.co.uk Clone website database is pres120 url is c21distribution.co.uk/pres120 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 then log into your NEW database. search the only table with url in its name. There is one row. Change the 2 fields to your new domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 What you specify when cloning does not change this two values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmaster Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 PS Version 1.6 or 1.7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 1.6.0.13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicmaster Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Follow the link I provided previously. It shows you the two things you need to change (the ps_shop_url table and the settings.inc.php file). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 100 points for musicmaster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Update: The problem has been resolved, using a clone tool that is built into softaculous. There was a bug where the .htcaccess file was causing issues when cloning forcing the new database to. A technician looked into it, made some's changes to the clone tool so it now works as it should do this is the line that was causing all the ssues - We have checked and we found that the .htaccess in your root installation had RewriteRule written as follows: RewriteRule . - [E=REWRITEBASE:/] They made a change to that and it all worked! thanks for all the advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Hello Musicmaster! Back to the catalogue mode.. When I enable this mode searching for the products no longer displays the product, if I turn it back to an actual shop it all works fine. Here is the url so you can see what I mean - http://c21distribution.co.uk/presta/ The home page works fine, it displays a bunch of products that I can click and browse to them that way, but as soon as I try search for a specific product or go to one of the categories it doesn't work, it will just say how many products there should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Rebuild the entire product index and check again. I don't believe is has to do with the catalog modue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Thanks for getting back so quick Scully, I tried what you said twice but still no joy. After I rebuild the index it says its successful and it says this just above the button to rebuild the index - The "indexed" products have been analyzed by PrestaShop and will appear in the results of a Front Office search.Indexed products 102 / 102. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Some products work, others don't. But the ajax search with pre-results seems to work always. But it's not related to the catalog mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Ahh yea, I just noticed that a few searches return results but most don't, strange. I have just recreated every category and added the products to them manually so that none of the products are listed in categories that don't exist to see if that would fix it but still no joy. I have also tried rebuilding the index again but still no joy. I wonder why some searches work but most don't and why none of my categories display anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Cant quite wrap my head around why everything works perfectly fine until I change the catalog mode to be on. Turned it off, made a search, it worked as it should do. Turned it on, made the same search, doesn't display anything. Its a bit strange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 It does not display anything. But it does not display for a lot of products. That's a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 12, 2017 Share Posted August 12, 2017 I would turn off ajax / quick search for testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 (edited) Sorry it took me so long to reply, been trying to resolve it with our hosting company. I just tried what you suggested but still no luck. Edited August 21, 2017 by luke.c21hygiene (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 You could add a log statement to the search controller which logs the entire SQL sent to the database. Then test again with and without catalog mode and compare the two statements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke.c21hygiene Posted August 21, 2017 Author Share Posted August 21, 2017 Thanks for all your help man, I appreciate it. I have ended up just avoiding the catalog mode as its causing the issue for me due to some config in the back end. Instead I have just disabled all the default accounts on the groups page and this has made it so theres no prices or option to buy the products. This will work Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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