[ic] 2nd Request: Re: Help w/upgrades & Updates loosing settings & functionality...

Mike Kang interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu May 22 20:17:28 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@icdevgroup.org [mailto:interchange-users-
> 
> I have been having a hell of a time when updating IC to newer versions
> from older versions.
> I was running a fully functional IC that lets say was about 30 days old.
> I then updated (cvs) and installed the latest and greatest.
> Once that is done, and I restart IC, my carts loose their pages, admin
> doesn't work and I end up having to reinstall it, which is a big pain.
> 

It doesn't sound like this will work for you, but I'll put it out there
anyway.
I have been updating using the tar ball and it seems to work fine.  The
installer detects that you are doing an upgrade and will not overwrite
important files (such as interchange.cfg, etc).  Of course if the new
feature you wanted requires changes in these files, you will have to do
those manually, but upgrading should not break anything.


> 
> 3. Catalog Name - when creating a catalog name for different domains, do
> I have a restriction that only allows me to use a specific name only one
> time on that server ?  example abc.com/catalog   123.com/catalog, would
> those catalog names conflict?
If they are running on the same interchange installation I believe they
will.  I think the store identifiers in interchange.cfg need to be unique
for each catalog.  I usually give each of the stores we host a 2 letter
identifier.  So our urls look like 

Somestore.com/cgi-bin/ss/index.html
Otherstore.com/cgi-bin/os/index.html
Etc

I have read on the list people using apache's url rewrite module to fix this
so a call to
Somestore.com/catalog will get rewritten internally to
somestore.com/cgi-bin/ss/index.html (for my example case above).  I haven't
tried this method though.

Mike K.