Uploading a WordPress Site: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:19, 11 February 2013

Documentation of necessary steps for uploading a WordPress site.

Upload the WordPress files
- Edit /[WP_ROOT]/wp-config.php to update the DB_HOST definition with the correct database server value for the production environment.
- The optimal way is to put the WordPress directory in a tarball, upload, and extract. This requires SSH on the remote server.
- Make sure to upload a .htaccess file that will handle requests based on page names.
- Take care to include media uploads ([WP_ROOT]/wp-content/uploads/)
Export the staging WordPress database.
- Make certain the client has stopped updating the content of the site.
- PhpMyAdmin on local machine.
- My_WP_Database > Export > Default settings > save as .SQL file
- Do a search and replace on the exported file, replacing the staging domain name with the production domain name.
Import the staging WordPress database.

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 * Upload the WordPress files
-** The optimal way is to put the WordPress directory in a tarball, upload, and extract. This requires SSH on the remote server.
+** Edit `/[WP_ROOT]/wp-config.php` to update the `DB_HOST` definition with the correct database server value for the production environment.
+** The optimal way is to put the WordPress directory in a tarball, upload, and extract. This requires SSH on the remote server.
+** Make sure to upload a `.htaccess` file that will handle requests based on page names.
 ** Take care to include media uploads (`[WP_ROOT]/wp-content/uploads/`)
 * Export the staging WordPress database.
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 ** PhpMyAdmin on local machine.
 ** ''My_WP_Database'' > '''Export''' > ''Default settings'' > ''save as .SQL file''
+** Do a search and replace on the exported file, replacing the staging domain name with the production domain name.
 * Import the staging WordPress database.
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