Move site from development to production

submike · Post by **submike** » Mon 4. Oct 2004, 22:22

Hi,

I would like to move my development site to production. It's hosted on the same server, and just want to move the site from a subdomain to the root domain.

dev.websitename.org --> http://www.websitename.org

The database is going to be in the same location. Can I just copy and paste the files from the dev directory to the www directory, and then update the following code from the include/inc_conf/conf.inc.php file?

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$phpwcms["site"]              = "http://dev.websitename.org/";

Thanks in advance,
Mike

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue 5. Oct 2004, 07:29

Yes - just copy the files/folders, but make sure that the file and folder permissions also stay the same. You'll find out relatively quickly if they don't. As far as I know, the variable that you mention is the only one that you should have to change.

submike · Post by **submike** » Tue 5. Oct 2004, 14:34

Thanks for the info Ben. I still have some work to do before the site goes live, which will be in a week or two. I'll post notes on the process, as well as a link to the site when it goes live.

submike · Post by **submike** » Wed 13. Oct 2004, 02:34

I tried transferring my personal test site from one subdomain (cms.randm.org) to another subdomain (test.randm.org), and it doesn't seem to work. I updated the include/inc_conf/conf.inc.php file to reflect the change and made sure the file/folder permissions are the same. All I get is "---".

Check it out at: http://test.randm.org

Any ideas on why this is happening? I'm supposed to move a site from development to production on Thursday for a Board meeting on Friday. In other words, I need to figure this out fast.

More info on my transfer method: Using Transmit (FTP client) on my mac, I went into the cms.randm.org directory and selected all files. I then used the move files option to move the files to the test.randm.org directory.

PLEASE HELP. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed 13. Oct 2004, 03:00

Do a clean install at the new subdomain and verify that it is working properly. Then, connect to the old database and copy up the style sheets, images etc.

submike · Post by **submike** » Wed 13. Oct 2004, 03:22

It appears there may be a problem my web hosting company. It appears anytime I create a subdomain, it just outputs "---" no matter what files are in the directory.

Ben, thanks for the quick reply. I'll use your method as a last resort, as I made some slight modifications to code and images. I'll post my progress/process.