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Licensing and Development vs Production installation


ploughguy

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I am prepping my store, learning heaps of PHP, and generally hackin' around and having a good time.

I am doing a bit of development (such as not even mentioning the word "Discount" unless they absolutely deserve one. Everytime _I_ get an invoice with "Discount $0.00" I ring up and ask why. Last thing I need is the undeserving demanding to pay less.)

As a result I have, and will need to retain, a development system. I am about to stuff the production instance into the host server, at which point I will have two instances of CubeCart (which is allowed under the license,) but they will have different IP addresses.

Question 1: How is the licensing handled by the cubecart control page? It has only space for one IP address. The development system is on a local virtual machine, and as such has a 192.168.<blah> IP address. The production instance is on a hosting service and will have a number-salad address and a domain name. Therefore there will be a fight. I saw some mumbling about key.ini files, but I don't really understand what the official best practice solution is for this. CC seems (quite reasonably) to be fairly finnicky about changes in IP address, so I expect that registering the production site's virtual host IP in the CC Control Panel will disable the development system.

Question 2: Can I take the copyright removal key for a test drive in the development system, or will that somehow cause problems when I later want to put it into the production system?

Thank you for your help, should you feel moved to provide it,

PG.

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