I have spent a long time building a store with Magento on my local development PC.
Now that I am happy with the result, I would like to upload it to my live production server.
What steps must I complete to ensure this move is as easy as possible?
I assume these two steps are obvious:
now on your production server you need to follow these two steps:
edit app/etc/local.xml file and change database info
in production db,in its core_config_data table, you should find every records containing the url of your local installation, then you need to update those values;which can be found with this query:
SELECT *
FROM `core_config_data`
WHERE `value` LIKE 'http://%';
edit (thanks to comments):
3. Do not forget to delete var folder contents
4. Optionally remove this file too app/etc/use_cache.ser
Best way would be to make a fresh install.
Change the URL of the site to the live one before exporting the database. Import your database into the live server. Download and unzip the Magento files. Edit the etc/local.xml file to set the database details.
Once you visit the URL, Magento will do all the required Database fixes and upgrades.
Copy the template into the folders.
Reinstall all modules (if you've used any).
You can move the site by other ways too... Check the following links.
Ref:
Don't change core files, instead either overload them via custom modules or, if absolutely necessary, replicate them in the app/local folder, which ensures that the modified versions get loaded instead of the standard files.
Deployment is handled like this:
I keep all Magento source files under version control, Subversion specifically. When I've tested my changes, I just submit them to the Subversion server and then export (or update) them on the production server. That way, I don't need to upload the whole site again, only the changed files get updated. Using the auto-installing extensions mechanism ensures that extensions are installed on the production server as they were on the development server. The only thing that's needed now is to adjust database settings for the new extensions on the production server (something that can also be handled by the extensions mechanism).
That's it. Hope it works for all. :)
If you want to move your installation form directory to top domain or one domain to another , you need to follow this setps.
1) Delete the content of the folder /var
2) Change the values of the file /app/etc/local.xml There you can find your connection string data (database user, host and name).
3) Once you got your database uploaded, you need to make some changes.
Run this query:
SELECT * FROM core_config_data WHERE path = 'web/unsecure/base_url' OR path = 'web/secure/base_url';
You gonna get something like this:
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| config_id | scope | scope_id | path | value |
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+
| 2 | default | 0 | web/unsecure/base_url | http://www.tudominio.com.ar/magento/ |
| 3 | default | 0 | web/secure/base_url | http://www.tudominio.com.ar/magento/ |
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------+
Now, change that values for your new url.
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'http://www.tudominio.com.ar/' WHERE path LIKE 'web/%/base_url';
If you run the first query, now you gonna get something like this:
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+------------------------------+
| config_id | scope | scope_id | path | value |
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+------------------------------+
| 2 | default | 0 | web/unsecure/base_url | http://www.tudominio.com.ar/ |
| 3 | default | 0 | web/secure/base_url | http://www.tudominio.com.ar/ |
+-----------+---------+----------+-----------------------+------------------------------+
That’s all.
For more info visit : http://webdesignergeeks.com/cms/magento/move-magento-from-local-server-to-live-server-without-fresh-installation/
Its very easy to do, i did it and i made a document of it. all you have to do is add these lines in your sql file.
Place these lines of SQL code on very top of the .sql file:
SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT;
SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS;
SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION;
SET NAMES utf8;
SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO';
SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0;
Place these lines of SQL code on very end of the .sql file:
SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS;
SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS;
SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT;
SET CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS;
SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION;
SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES;
for more details
http://findgodaddyhostingreview.com/2010/06/how-to-move-magento-from-production-to-live-server/
I find in web/unsecure/base_url in magecore_config_data database, if you search core_config_data and see it is empty table, please search something like magecore_config_data.
this mag that become in first part is asked of you when you install Magento as a prefix for Magento tables.
And one another point, I use wamp 2.2 and when I search databases in phpmyadmin that filtered only databases in that page, please change pages and search again.
I follow this tutorial http://magentoexplorer.com/how-to-move-or-transfer-magento-from-localhost-to-live-server and succeeded to move my Magento installation from Localhost (XAMPP) to live server. Simply, you can follow these 5 steps:
1. Export database of Magento site (SQL file)
Open PHPmyadmin to export your database to SQL file or you can run this command from SSH mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE > backup.sql
2. Upload code of Magento site to live server
Upload all files/folder from your localhost to live site using FTP client, you can zip and unzip file to make sure all files are preserved
3. Import database to live server and change database configuration.
Again, use PHPmyadmin to import the .sql file we export in step 1 or run this command from SSH mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE < backup.sql
4. Replace local URL with live site URL in database
Find the table core_config_data and edit url in column web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url to the domain of your live site
5. Pointing your domain to server’s IP
Hope this helps
After completion of building an eCommerce website in localhost with lots of efforts configure all other settings in localhost. Some of them are struggling to Upload their store from localhost to live server, where even our team faced this problem in the beginning.
HOW TO UPLOAD MAGENTO SITE FROM LOCALHOST TO LIVE SERVER
Now from this tutorial, I am going to show you how to successfully Upload Magento site from localhost to live server. Here are the most important steps to make your shop live from localhost to your live production server.
Step 1: Make a zip of your Magento Working Files.
Select Magento working files from your local server. And then Just go to htdocs folder( if XAMPP) or www folder ( if WAMP) later go to Magento folder and then compress all the files in the zip folder.
Step 2: Open your Database using phpMyAdmin
Open your control panel (Xampp/Wamp) and Start Apache and MySQL. After that, visit localhost/phpmyadmin and then open your Magento Database.
Step 3: Type these SQL query: Here I have used m22 as my database name
Select * from m22.core_config_data where value like ‘%127.0.0.1%’
Step 4: Change 127.0.0.1 or localhost to your domain URL
After entering the query in SQL command line you will find a result in phpMyAdmin window. Change 127.0.0.1 or localhost to your domain URL as shown in below images.
Example:
UPLOAD MAGENTO SITE FROM LOCALHOST TO LIVE SERVER
Step 5: Export MySQL full database [3] After completing your previous step, you have to Export/dump your full database. In our case we used Xampp shell command prompt to dump the database as shown in below images.
Example: Export using Xampp shell command prompt
HOW TO UPLOAD MAGENTO SITE FROM LOCALHOST TO LIVE SERVER
Step 6:Create Database in C-panel using username and password
After Logging into your C-panel. Create new database with username and password credentials in MySQL database wizard.
Step 7: Upload the Database files
Upload localhost database file (From Step 5) in phpMyAdmin using C-Panel
Step 8: Upload the zip file in file manager
Upload Magento working files (From Step 1) in File Manager using C-Panel
Step 9: Connect your Magento file with your database
After uploading your Magento work file, Go to app folder and follow the steps given below:
Go to root folder -> app -> etc -> local.xml.sample
Rename local.xml.sample to local.xml
Change the user credential (username and password given in database from Step 6) [4]
<host>your_host_name]]></host>
<username>your_user_name]]></username>
<password>your_database_password]]></password>
<dbname>your_database_name]]></dbname>
Save the changes
Example: HOW TO UPLOAD MAGENTO SITE FROM LOCALHOST TO LIVE SERVER
Step 10: Create and clear cache memory
Create _cache folder in Magento -> var
Open the cache folder in Magento- > var and select all cache files and then choose delete.
Step 11: Change cache directory
Create a temp folder in Magento
Open magento/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php and look for:
protected $_options = array(
‘cache_dir’ => ‘null’,
Change it to:
protected $_options = array(
‘cache_dir’ => ‘tmp/’,
Save it.
Step 12: Clear browser cookies and reload the page
After you have done all the above steps successfully, your Magento site is now completely uploaded on your own domain from localhost. Now you can check in the browser by entering your domain name and press enter. You are now amazingly viewing your online store if you have completed all above steps as mentioned. Now the online Store looks exactly what you viewed in your localhost.
for more information visit : http://www.instasoftech.com/blog/how-to-upload-magento-site-from-localhost-to-live-server/
I recently moved a full Magento install complete with a couple of extensions. I found it as simple as copying the directory structure, changing the BASE_URL in config_data and changing the database info in 'local.xml'.
