dashCommerce

Hello, I hope you expirienced developers can assist on some basic questions i bare in mind.

I have installed dashcommerce from scratch, and start to add products and change configuration.
All of this done on my local machine, I guess I will need to develop extra features I will need.

Main question is what will happened after I will done with that. will I need to make a new installation on production host?
Or can I just export/import the database I was work on, including the WEB folder?

One more question regarding this, after the website is up, what is the best way keep developing and maintaing dashcommerce?

should I keep my local database and continue work on it as test environment?
Any tips for the development/production enviorments are more then welcome

Thank you ,

To upload the database from your dev system you can of use a tool that the hosting provider gives you to restore a DB from a backup or you can use SubSonic to generate all the scripts and data for you into a sql file that you can run against your DB (sonic.exe version)
And there are other ways.

So what you suggestion actually is to skip the installation phase on the server.
Does the installation does only database changes?

And I wonder, If I will use the dashcommerce installation files, I will be able using the SubSonic to upload only the data, without database structure design?

megetron:

Does the installation does only database changes?

megetron:

And I wonder, If I will use the dashcommerce installation files, I will be able using the SubSonic to upload only the data, without database structure design?