Commerce Server Blog

Commerce server 2007 starter site provides a fully-functional sample retail site solution. It is a showcase application provided by Microsoft and provide guidelines for building front-end websites using Commerce Server 2007. It showcases most of the mission-critical features of an ecommerce application. With sample data included, the Starter Site will allow you to build an online store complete with product details, shopping cart, checkout processes, and marketing support. You can download starter site from Microsoft site and the URL is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c1a8cc18-dc9e-4c50-b598-86e640a79910&displaylang=en

Using commerce server site packer tool, we can unpack starter site. Sometimes, the developer might need to install multiple instances of starter site. To do that, you need to select “Custom Unpack” as shown below.

Click next button.  In the third screen, give your desired site name  (as shown below).
 

Keep all default settings (perform changes if required). At the last screen, we have to change the default application and virtual directory names (as shown below).
 

Select commerce server application name at the top and change commerce server application name and virtual directory name in the text boxes.

With this approach, we can create/unpack multiple instances of commerce server starter site on a single machine.