Wamp

[Duncan Rounding]

Pop that Champagne cork!

[Michael J]

Sadly, not quite there yet. Waited and waited for something to happen but just received this message:
Gateway Time-out

The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.

Checked Actinic to see if any orders available, but none.

So seems still a small problem somewhere!

I've put the Champagne on ice!!! for now!

[leehack]

Excuse my ignorance, but what advantage does this have over having a test domain for £60-70 a year where you can see the site in a real life environment on a real server. Is the time investment into this a stubborn determination to get it working or am i missing something crucial?

[Michael J]

Come on, having used paid for servers in the past and experienced more than a fare amount of problems/downtime I thought it might be an idea to do it local. Although, you're probably right, seems this is proving a tough nut to crack. Mind you, that Champagne will go down even better when we've cracked it......or given up completely!

[leehack]

Ah i think i understand it now, you're going to actually host your site yourself, you're not just doing this to test it and then going live on a normal setup.

Your concerns would of course be somewhat empty if you weren't prepared to test on a normal server because of problems, but then went live on a normal setup. I see where you're coming from now though, i think you're a little loopy btw, but i admire your determination if nothing else.

[Michael J]

No'p, no intention of hosting it myself, already have a domain/hosting set up to receive it, just thought I'd test it local as part of the development stage to make any necessary tweaks etc. Which, even now I have found some needed tweaks required. Having now done it this far it would be nice to get it working, although next time it goes to a proper hosting/server!
I'm, of course, always open to constructive comments!
Mike

[leehack]

It's all a bit confusing for me then Mike, you're not prepared to test on a real environment because of downtime/problems, but you're more than happy to go live with those possible problems. That's surely completely arse upwards thinking.

If you're happy to go live on the hosting you have setup, why not switch to test mode and upload to the same environment, you're on the ultimate server you will be, people will not see the site and you have no further time to spend on a solution that on the surface (challenge aside) is not doing anything to prove or help anything.

WEB | SWITCH TO TEST MODE - job done and tested on the environment where it will end up, i don't think you can test better than that.

[Michael J]

Great idea, the problem is, I've already got a site at the domain/host site, not a store as such, but a full site of my products which is serving its purpose for the time being and I didn't want to have any downtime with that and possible trade loss. I do agree now, however, after these problems, to set up another hosted dummy site would be the best option, but for now I'd just like to get this set up working......!
With regard to test mode, do I select test mode first or upload first, then test mode?

[leehack]

If you select test mode, then upload, your existing site will remain untouched and the test site will be live too, once you've clicked on test mode, look at the network settings and you will see what actinic does to enable this facility. The site loads to a completely different place, so in essence you can have an actinic site live and a test site live all on the same domain.

[Michael J]

Interesting, my present site isn't an Actinic one just an ordinary Dreamweaver creation, would I need to make/create any server file changes before upload?

[leehack]

Only those that you will need to do once you decide to go live with the actinic site, nothing extra to do for the test site is required.

[Michael J]

Only those that you will need to do once you decide to go live with the actinic site, nothing extra to do for the test site is required.

Just as a matter of interest, how do I navigate to the Actinic Test site in the browser if my domain already points to my present site or do I copy the Actinic test location directory and insert that into the address bar?

[leehack]

I presumed you'd ask that, so back in post #39, I already answered it for you.

[Michael J]

Thanks, but I'm still confused. If I enter the address of my existing index.html page I get my existing site not the Actinic site (theoreticaly, there are now two index pages at the same location, albeit in different directories) so I therefore assume I have to enter the URL.com/acatalog/test/acatalog to access the actinic site?

[leehack]

That sounds right yes. You can't have two pages in the same place but different locations, there will be no index at root level for the actinic test site, it will move into the test folder setup.