WordPress transfer/testing

  • joshamo

    (@joshamo)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    My boss just decided we are going to switch all of our sites to wordpress which is awesome, but I have never done much back end stuff with it.

    This is my main question:

    Would it be possible/reasonable to build one server as a test bed server that we can do development on, test the sites from there, and then transfer them to our main web server? Or should we just develop them on the main server and any time we need to edit them edit them there and pray?

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  • leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    In the morning, if the sun comes up, I will be using temporary URLs to install WordPress in two locations and then set those sites up right there where they will always remain.

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Most places will use either two servers (dev and production) or they’ll do development on one then go live, and from then on make minimal changes to the live site.

    Personally I prefer having the 2-server model, but this can bet tricky when you try to syncronise databases (if anyone knows a good tool for this I’m sure we’d all love to hear about it!). Once the site is done most of the things that you do is changing CSS, adding/editing pages and menus, and general house-keeping. That’s why a lot of our clients just have a single server once the site is live.

    Thread Starter joshamo

    (@joshamo)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Catacaustic that is what I was hoping to do, I just have no idea how hard it will be to move things from server a to server b.. Is it as simple as move the files and go? Or is there a lot more to it..

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    It’s pretty easy. Transfer the fikes, set up the new database, import the database content and update tge wp-config.php file with the new db details.

    Depending in the move you will most likely beed to change the URL in the settings but there’s a lot of good search and replace tools and plugins around so that part is pretty easy.

    Thread Starter joshamo

    (@joshamo)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks! I guess now I just have to figure out the database stuff
    😛

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