[support] develop to test to production server question

[Cog Rusty]

On 8/22/07, sander-martijn <sander at sander-martijn.com> wrote:
> Anyone know of a place that lists out which files and database tables
> need to be changed when migrating drupal from one server to another?  If
> not could someone take the time to list them out for me?  It would save
> a lot of headaches.


Normally nothing except the settings in settings.php needs changing.
Oh, and possibly any modifications to the .htaccess file or its
suitability for the new server.

Also the names of the directories under 'sites' except 'default', and
the location of the 'files' directory.

If there are any references to the old domain name by some modules or
in the content, I don't think it is possible to list them, but a text
search in the database dump should do the job.

What else... database adjustment if it going to be moved between MySQL
4.0 or older and 4.1 or newer.


> We're setting up our test server now and when it's ready I will copy the
> database and drupal files to the new server so that content editors can
> begin entering the content without the risk of my code taking them
> down.  I have enough of the site already configured that I would rather
> not set it up from scratch but obviously there will be things that need
> to change (hostname, possibly paths, db connect info etc).
>
> Once it's set up I'll move forward with the traditional develop, test,
> deploy approach so I don't need a complex setup to synchronize the db or
> anything, and I don't need directions on how to set up a database or
> apache or anything - a one time copy/configure these files, change those
> database entries should be sufficient.
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