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Migrating to the Acquia Hosting Environment
Before you start:
What ITS will create for your technical contact to use
- An account to access the ITS Drupal version control system.
- Two sites folder in the version control system
- ucsf/docroot/sites/dev.yoursite.ucsf.edu and
- ucsf/docroot/sites/yoursite.ucsf.edu
- A configured settings.php file in the version control system
- Three sites for development, testing, and production
- dev.yoursite.ucsf.edu (development)
- test.yoursite.ucsf.edu (testing)
- yoursite.ucsf.edu (production)
How to Migrate the Site to the Drupal Testing Environment
- Check the site code into version control system - do not check the "files" directory in
- Provide the latest mysql dump to ITS
- Provide the zipped files directory to ITS
- ITS will then notify you when the site is available on development for testing
- Test your site on dev.yoursite.ucsf.edu (you may need to set up a local host record)
- Once you've tested the site notify ITS that you want to migrate the site to production.
- Check your code into your.site.ucsf.edu - see how to migrate code
- ITS will move the database and files to staging
- Configure your site for staging & production
- change the files folder location to sites/mysite.ucsf.edu/files from sites/dev.mysite.ucsf.edu/files
- Clear all caches
- Test stage.yoursite.ucsf.edu
- If stage works fine test yoursite.ucsf.edu
- Schedule the creation of a new DNS or a DNS change