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Please be easy. I have never used phpmyadmin or xampp and am wanting to set up OSCommerce locally before uploading to my host. I have Apache and Mysql running and am on the phpmyadmin control panel. Set up a root password and got back in ( I was surprised). I am assuming I need to set up a database such as my domain to upload the oscommerce files to? I was also trying to get filezilla to connect using localhost, user, my password and port 21 and it would not connect. I have a website using prestahop on my host already but the setup was pretty automatic through fantastico. I just want to check out this other store software to see if I like it better without doing it through my host.

Thanks for any help.

Hello and welcome jpr28056.

I'm not sure what you're asking.

You can get into (log onto) phpMyAdmin for the local/new XAMPP installation? If so, you'll see some system/MySQL databases already exist. You now have to bring in (upload/import) your own website's databases. Or create new ones.

You can get the the existing database (files thereof) from your current host? Hosting packaging often enable you to download/export. Then you can import into your XAMPP, or create a new one using phpMyAdmin.

Thanks for the reply

I figured out part of it because I didn't have filezilla service installed. I already had the filezilla client software used to upload my existing website to my host. My problem is now that I don't have a clue how to upload the files with filezilla to the localhost. This is a steep learning curve for an old guy with 6 kids.

edit: Slowly but surely I'm getting there. I now have filezilla connected. Do I need to set up a database in phpmyadmin such as the domain name and upload the files to it?

Uhhhh - you don't have to 'upload' files....

Just copy them with Windows Explorer. 'localhost' is YOUR machine.