What are basic things to check if my extension works perfectly locally (shopping-local.ssp) but not when I deploy? I activated it with extension manager on the correct domain with no errors. I'm a newbie so it could be something obvious...

I mean it depends what's going wrong. But I'd think something related to the theme side of things maybe since that may different between live site and what's running locally

I think it may be because my shopping.ssp isn't tied to my homepage? If I go to /sca-dev-2020-1/shopping.ssp on my live site I can see the banner extension I made but it shows page not found rather than my homepage. But locally it shows up on my homepage. I'm probably missing something pretty basic

umm your live site should have an actual domain url... and you shouldn't have anything else in there... www.mysite.com should be all you need for you live homepage ... no shopping.ssp no /sca-dev-xxx/

Yeah that's what I'm trying to get work, my extension does not show up on just www.mysite.com. But I was playing with the url on the live site and it DOES show up if I add /shopping.ssp. So I thought I was missing something.

umm I know you said basic, so please dont be offended... did you deploy... THEN activate?

No worries! Yes, I did do it in that order. I even just tried to activate again.

wait... you said it doesn't show up with the correct url on the live site, but with shopping.ssp without local it works?! that seems very strange... but it DOES indicate that you deployed/activated correctly

Correct, that's what happens. That sounds like it could be it. I definitely deployed to the right domain, I don't remember selecting SSP/File cabinet location at any point. Where do I set that? Thanks for helping debug this btw, super helpful!!

when you first deploy after you login (via command lne) it should prompt you for all that stuff

It just randomly started working last week haha, just to let you know, thanks for the help anthony!

sure happy to help? 😄