By SerenityNow on

Hi- I am about to start a migration to Drupal, and I was wondering if there are any best practices. In particular, I was wondering about moving from a staging/test environment to production...

I have root access to our production servers, and I was planning on just setting up an apache alias 'staging.servername.com' to the drupal directory, and then just switching the alias to 'www.servername.com' when the drupal install is ready to go live.

Are there any potential issues with what I envision? (are any server names/paths hardcoded)

Is there a recommended set of steps?

Thanks for any info.

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coreyp_1 commented

No, it is not hard-coded, so what you propose should work. It is highly encouraged to work out of subdomains rather than putting Drupal in a subfolder (i.e. dev.mysite.com versus www.mysite.com/drupal). Everything else you plan sounds good.

-Corey