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AlexBall

Member

Registered: October 9, 2012

Posts: 5

Development to Production

Hey guys,

What's the best way (or what does FastSpot utilize) to take a developed BigTree site locally (using MAMP Pro) and porting that to a live server?

Alex

timbuckingham

Administrator

From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

Posts: 978

Re: Development to Production

BigTree stores all links as relative in the database so that when you push the database to your live server they are correct, so there's really only three steps to going live from your local development server:

1. Copy your files over to your live server and setup write permissions for the web server on /cache/, /site/files/, /custom/inc/, /templates/callouts/, /templates/basic/, and /templates/routed/ -- If you miss any of the file permissions you can check in Developer under Site Status and it will give you a list of directories that need write permissions.

2. Copy your database over to your live server.

3. Edit your /templates/config.php file to adjust your database connection parameters and your domain, www_root, static_root, and admin_root.

After that you should be all set on your live server. Let me know if you have any questions!