Magento

i was wondering what steps are needed in order to move Magento from one domain to another. I would like to have a development install located at dev.mysite.com and then the production version would live at mysite.com. This is how I would assume it would be done.

1) export the database via the admin.
2) move all files to the production site
3) do a search an replace on the sql backup for the old domain replacing it with the new.
4) import the sql into a fresh database using phpmyadmin

Am I missing any steps?

Sounds like it should work

Is there any specific need to make domain name handling such complicated (storage in database)?

Mootrealm - 10 March 2008 03:22 PM

i was wondering what steps are needed in order to move Magento from one domain to another. I would like to have a development install located at dev.mysite.com and then the production version would live at mysite.com. This is how I would assume it would be done.

1) export the database via the admin.
2) move all files to the production site
3) do a search an replace on the sql backup for the old domain replacing it with the new.
4) import the sql into a fresh database using phpmyadmin

Have you changed only app/etc/local.xml file to change the db settings?

Thanks
Chiara

I never actually moved a site, I just know that I will need to in the future so I wanted to know how it was done. Moshe should know,

1) After Moving all the files
You only need to change app/etc/local.xml

2) Before moving database
you should run following command
SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";
and then move the database

that’s it

So you run that SQL command before you export the database? What if you still want to keep using it if it is your dev install?

Also you might want to read this blog post: http://activecodeline.com/2008/08/07/moving-magento-site-from-development-to-live-server/#comment-205

It could save you some time.

I followed the instructions on the following website and problem solved. Hope this is useful to someone.

http://activecodeline.com/moving-magento-site-from-development-to-live-server/