Development Licence - Host Headers and IP

[niall08]

Hi all..

We're a small development house - our development and production servers are essentially one-and-the-same - with the purchase of AbleCommerce we supplied the eventual domain name for the e-store and the IP of the development server.

But the demo version we ran used a host header to resolve to a sub-domain of our own site, which we want to continue to use for development until we're ready to go into production.

Using the development licence for the IP alone has produced a 404 error.

Has anyone encountered the same problem and, more importantly, come across a solution to this problem?

[mazhar]

Key is bounded to the domain name. So if domain name is going to change then you will need another key for new domain.

[niall08]

Thanks Mazhar..

Can the new development key be domain based? (i.e. one domain for production, one for development?)

Or can the key be based on the format of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/subdomain.domain.com?

[jmestep]

You can add demoMode="true" to the first line in the App_Data/ablecommerce.config file and your dev site should run OK with that. Any orders will come thru with Demo Demo for name. I have to do that on my computer because I use RoadRunner and the ip address changes periodically.

[niall08]

jmestep - you're a star!

Great suggestion - thanks