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I've been let down with a developer going AWOL half-way through a project and have had to learn as I go to get our new site sorted.
The current site is : ourdomain.co.uk/ (not magento)
We have the development site on : ourdomain.co.uk/beta2
How do I replace the live site ?
My plan is to backup, delete old site files and replace with files from /beta2 and use an extension I have for 301 redirects.
Please advise if this is a bad thing to do a better way.
You have two Magento's and you want to replace the ourdomain.co.uk/ content with ourdomain.co.uk/beta2 otherwise you want to move the beta environement into live environement
Schema :
1. ourdomain.co.uk/
server: |___ var/www/html
2. ourdomain.co.uk/beta2
server: |___ var/www/html/beta2
Create folder : prod_backup in : var/www/html then move all the content of this var/www/html inside prod_backup, now you will have just prod_backup folder in var/www/html.
Copy the var/www/html/beta2 content inside var/www/html/. (now we have copied the beta2 in live site : var/www/html/)
Go to var/www/html/app/code/local.xml then change the data base credentials from the beta to live one like this:
<default_setup>
<connection>
<host><![CDATA[localhost]]></host>
<username><![CDATA[user_here]]></username>
<password><![CDATA[password_here]]></password>
<dbname><![CDATA[database_name_here]]></dbname>
...
</connection>
</default_setup>
Do a backup of the livesever database then replace it with the beta database.
You have to change the base url in the new Database in core_config_data table in : web/secure/base_url and web/unsecure/base_url or via query :
update core_config_data set value = 'http://ourdomain.co.uk/' where path = 'web/unsecure/base_url';
update core_config_data set value = 'http://ourdomain.co.uk/' where path = 'web/secure/base_url';
Good luck.
prod_backup as you mention and replace with the beta2 files. I may be over thinking this but this is new to me and don't want to be penalised by Google.
ourdomain.co.uk/beta2content toourdomain.co.uk/?/beta2to/(or change the webroot, which might be easier, depending on the GUI you use for managing your webspace), remove/var/sessionand/var/cacheand update/app/etc/local.xmlwith your database details? Whether to use the current "live" database or the one used in/beta2depends on what is stored in the database (i.e. has there been another version of your shop online already).