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• 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

• Log on to the production  Drupal site and configure the 'Site under maintenance' block
  • Under 'Page specific visibility settings' select 'Show on every page except the listed pages.'
• Make a backup of the production site to the Manual Backups Directory (using Backup and Migrate module)Log on to the test Drupal site
  • Drupal 6: http://$productiondomain/admin/content/backup_migrate/export
  • Drupal 7: http://$productiondomain/admin/config/system/backup_migrate
• Put the test site into maintenance modego to victoria02 and cd /libweb/sites/[your site name]/make
  • Drupal 6: http://$testdomain/admin/settings/site-maintenance
  • Drupal 7: http://$testdomain/admin/config/development/maintenance
• Determine what machine the production site is onLog on to the test Drupal site
  • victoria03 - www.library.cornell.edu, beta.library.cornell.edu
    • sudo update_test_from_victoria03.sh [your production site domain] [your test site domain]
  • victoria02 - all the others
    • sudo update_test_from_production.sh [your production site domain] [your test site domain]
  • the script will ask you if you completed each of the steps above and give you all the real paths to the pages you need to use
  • the script moves the site with rsync
• Restore the latest backuptake the test site out of maintenance mode
  • Drupal 6: http://$testdomain/admin/content/backup_migrate/destination/list/files/manual
  • Drupal 7: http://$testdomain/admin/config/system/backup_migrate/destination/list/files/manual
  • click 'restore' next to the latest version of the file (hint: sort by file name!)

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:

  • ~/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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There is also one on victoria03 to update production there: /usr/local/bin/update_victoria03_from_test.sh

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Usage: sudo /usr/local/bin/update_production_from_test.sh <test domain> <production domain>

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• victoria03 - www.library.cornell.edu, beta.library.cornell.edu
  • ssh to the production machine victoria03 and cd /libweb/sites/[your site name]/make 
  • sudo update_victoria03_from_test.sh [your test domain] [your production domain]
• victoria01 - all the others
  • ssh to the production machine victoria01 and cd /libweb/sites/[your site name]/make 
  • sudo update_production_from_test.sh [your test domain] [your production domain]

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