Ok,

I have been a Concrete5 user for six months to a year, love the CMS and the add ons, the community etc, I really want to stick with this, but.

My client wants their new site, I designed and tested on my server, up on their own Windows IIS box. I have spent a week getting this box ready, all so far out of my comfort zone, but little victories have spurred me on.

I managed to install Concrete5 on the box after I had PHP and MySQL installed, along with phpMyAdmin, which again is all up and running nicely. I know have the test Concrete5 site running and phpMyAdmin running so I can tackle the database stuff.

Okay, it sounds like I have nothing to worry about, so why an I here ;o)

I went through all this previously on the clients CentOS box, I had to upload the DB in parts using big dump, the site files came across, but the whole site looked pants with an UTF-8 error, funny characters.

In the end, I got the client to dump the CentOS route and we agreed on a Windows IIS box, which to be honest has been easier to get the Concrete5 install test page up.

I am now having second thoughts as to overwriting file folders etc and trash what is a working demo site on the box. Is there a way I can duplicate the whole root folder of my Concrete5 install and work on that?

But would I need to change database links etc, and I really would love a better way of running the new DB of it's 7Mb size with phpMyadmin rather than uploading part etc.

I never thought this would be so difficult and I am nearing the stage of completely moving away from Concrete5 because of this one job. I have read all the 'How to's' and frankly this has been a nightmare.

Can anyone help ;o)

Thanks

Nick