[Typo3] Move site - how?

[Bill Alexy]

And that's less work?

;p

Jakob Rohde wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> I tried another method - for non workaholics... And it worked!
>
> I exported the entire tree and imported it as a subtree under a dummy 
> page created on "site B". It gave me a lot of error messages caused by 
> missing extensions.
>
> Then I installed the missing extensions, deleted the imported site, 
> cleared all cache and imported once again. This time witout error 
> messages.
>
> And then I spimply clicked on the page which was previously the top 
> most page, and moved it to the top. Afterwards I deleted the dummy 
> page. (Maybe it would be an ides for the next Typo3 version to add a 
> "Import from .td3" menu item to the drop down menu of the site icon in 
> the page tree?).
>
> I also copied the relevant directories and files from fileadmin to the 
> new server.
>
> Voila!
>
> I have moved the site to a server, which is to function as a 
> development / staging site in the future. It is my intention, that I 
> will test new modules and new versions of Typo3 etc. on this server 
> before installing them on the future production server. I have noticed 
> the precense of a backend module called "liveserver sync". Do you, or 
> any other reader of this list, have any experience with this one?
>
> Jakob
>
> Christoph Roth wrote:
>
>> Jakob Rohde schrieb:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to move an entire site from one T3 server to another. I exported 
>>
>>
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> if you just want to move a complete site from server A to server B 
>> you can do the following:
>>
>> On server A:
>>
>> 1. log into the backend, clear all cache.
>> 2. Make a dump of the site's database (for example with Typo3's built 
>> in phpmyadmin module)
>> 3. make a zip or tar archive of the site's file tree, including the 
>> source tree.
>>
>> On server B:
>>
>> 1. create a new empty database and pipe in the database dump from 
>> Server A
>> 2. unpack the file tree archive from server A on server B
>>
>> You may check the path entries of some binaries with the install tool 
>> on server B, for example ImageMagick could have moved to another 
>> directory. Also the PHP configuration may have changed on the new 
>> server.
>>
>> This whole procedure sounds a bit dirty, but I have done it serveral 
>> times with no problems on Linux, even with more complex sites of 
>> several hundred pages.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Christoph
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