By mrobbins on

Hi Guys,

Apologies in advance for my drupal ignorance and lack of understanding. I am new to Drupal and have had no previous experience of designing websites, or using content management frameworks.

I have spent time developing a drupal test site for my company's new website on my local machine. My boss would like to transfer it over to what will be the 'live' server. He has spent time trying to find this out, and thought there would be a simple way but there does not seem to be. Could somebody please advise??

Thankyou
Matt

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Kirk’s picture

Kirk commented

You need to configure the remote server first, then you backup your files and your database on the local machine and copy them to the remote server. It's not much different than you would do with any other website, you can find info here: http://drupal.org/node/679054

mrobbins’s picture

mrobbins commented

Thanks Kirk,

Your feedback is much appreciated. I shall take some time to read through this and pass this onto my supervisor, who has far greater knowledge of back end, systems etc. (unfortunately, I am a 'mere' graphic designer so have no knowledge of back end systems and associated terminology.)

Thanks again and I shall be in touch should there be any further queries.

Matt

ashish.verma85’s picture

ashish.verma85 commented

Hi

1. Take backup of your database and site folder
2. Make changes to settings.php change username ,password and database name
3. upload your folder to live server
4. Upload database.

And you are done.......
Feel free to ask any Q.........

Thanks
Ashish

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samwillc commented

Thanks for the above. I am also moving to a live server from a multi site local setup. Both sites will be going live.

I am a little confused about the folder structure. I have currently:

drupal/sites/all
drupal/sites/testsite1 <---- my main website which is complete locally
drupal/sites/testsite2 <---- my second site nearly complete locally

testsite1 is my main/default site. I deleted the default directory as I thought I didn't need it. My primary registered domain will be using settings.php from:

drupal/sites/testsite1/settings.php (I am aware I will need to change a few settings here and there i.e. 'host' => 'localhost', will need to be replaced with something?? Not sure about that yet)

1) Is this a correct folder setup?

2) Also, is the folder structure on the live server httpdocs/www/drupal/DRUPAL_CORE_FILES or httpdocs/www/DRUPAL_CORE_FILES?

I am just confused about setting up the first site, I'm sure setting up others beneath it will become apparent once I do the first one. I have read a bunch of tutorials and I think the best option for me is to
park domains in the future for any other sites I set up.

Thanks in advance.

ashish.verma85’s picture

ashish.verma85 commented

Hi

In setting.php you need to change the several things
1. Host
2. username // of the server
3. password // of the server
4. database name // if not the same
If you want i will send you the sample setting.php file.

Put all the files in www/

Thanks
Ashish

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samwillc commented

Hi Ahsish,

Thanks that would be great, feel free to contact me.

Sam.

smilysarat’s picture

smilysarat commented

Nice Post... Easy to Understand Everything..
Do u have any idea about migrating the site from Existing version to latest version ( Example : Version 6 to 7).

samwillc’s picture

samwillc commented

Sorry, i have only ever used v7 after starting with Drupal six months ago.

ashish.verma85’s picture

ashish.verma85 commented

Hi

For this first you need to check you code.
Please check that if there is any modification in core code?

Thanks & Regards
Ashish