Guideline for moving live

  • Resolved jbrattis

    (@jbrattis)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    HI,
    I’ve created a brand new version of my website with “Staging”. Now I was ready to move to live.
    I took backups of the wordpress directories and database.
    I changed the name of the site in the WP dashboard – Settings – General. Both wordpress URL and the homepage URL was changed, deleting /staging at the end.
    Opened FTP. Copied all the files in the live site to “old_site”.
    Copied all the content in the staging folder to root (www).
    Opened FIrefox and wrote the URL of my homepage. The Admin interface of the Staging site came up.
    The new files are intact on root, but only available to admin.

    Please advise: What else do I need to do in order to make the staging files public?
    I’m a total newbie, but I can edit files on the server if I’m told what to look for. I tried to change the wpconfig file since that referred to staging. But when I took away staging my old site came back, not the new one.

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  • Thread Starter jbrattis

    (@jbrattis)

    I have messed around with this for some time now. I don’t get it. Everything on the site works except that it requires login. Staging has been removed from all URLs, I can see that all permalinks are OK.
    wpconfig is correct, and includes the correct name for db, login, password.

    Do I have to remove the staging plugin in order to see the site public?

    I would really appreciate anyones input. The site must go public today due to an event tomorrow.

    Plugin Author Rene Hermenau

    (@renehermi)

    Hello,

    > Do I have to remove the staging plugin in order to see the site public?

    Yes:-)

    Best regards
    René

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