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- You need to have ssh keys set up so you can get to the other machine without a password prompt
- one easy way to do this is set up the drush command 'pushkey'
- read all about it: https://www.drupal.org/project/drush_extras
PUSHKEY drush pushkey user@host.domain.com Creates an ssh public/private key pair in $HOME/.ssh, if one does not already exist, and then pushes the public key to the specified remote account. The password for the destination account must be entered once to push the key over; after the key has been stored on the remote system, subsequent ssh and remote drush commands may be executed using the public/private key pair for authentication. IN DRUSH EXTRAS because is is Linux / openssl-specific.- install it in your user's drush
- log in to victoria02
drush dl drush_extras
use it
- log in to victoria02
- drush pushkey nid123@victoria01.library.cornell.edu
- prompts for password on victoria01 one time
- now try
- ssh nid123@victoria01.library.cornell.edu
- no password prompt, right?
How to move from production to testget the latest versions of the scripts
- log in to victoria02
- grab the new scripts from github
cd ~
git clone git@github.com:cul-it/drupal-site-moves.git
cd ~/drupal-site-moves
git pull
How to set permissions on a site
- log in to the server where the site is via ssh
- get the latest versions of the scripts
~/drupal-site-moves/set_permissions.sh <site name>
How to move from production to test
- Set permissions for the production site on the production machine
- Set permissions on test site on the test machine
- while logged in to the test machine:
~/drupal-site-moves/pull_site_from_production.sh <production site name> <test site name>
- you are prompted for your password
- you are asked to confirm the site move
- you are asked to inform the site users that you are working on the site on the test server
- put up the 'Site Under Maintenance' block
- script continues on without requiring any input from you
- backs up the database
- moves the site files to the target server
- installs the backed up database on the target server
- done
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How to move from test to production
- Set permissions for the test site on the test machine
- Set permissions on production site on the production machine
- while logged in to the production machine:
- log in to victoria01 or victoria03
- grab the new scripts from github
- cd ~
- git clone git@github.com:cul-it/drupal-site-moves.git
- cd ~/drupal-site-moves git pull
~/drupal-site-moves/pull_site_from_test.sh <test site name> <production site name>
you are prompted for your password
- you are asked to confirm the site move
- you are asked to confirm again
- you can take down the 'Site Under Maintenance' block while the site is still on the test server
- script continues on without requiring any input from you
- backs up the database
- moves the site files to the target server
- installs the backed up database on the target server
- done
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