I'm making lots of WordPress sites and currently editing files directly on cpanel accounts via FTP. I would like to do this a different way and I wonder if it is possible:
Develop in WAMP on my local machine (I have this set up)
One click publishing and/or updating of the project to a cpanel account (files and database).
Synch the live cpanel site back to the WAMP environment to do ongoing work and testing (files and database).
I am NOT looking for instructions to manually move WP to a server. These are all over the place and I know how. I want to work from my local machine and synch/publish to the server with a single click, or at least something very simple.
Thank you in advance
I use WP Migrate DB Pro for managing database and media copies from one server to another. I use beanstalk with auto-deployment for pushing code to my ftp servers (I have at least one test site and a single live site for every website I work on)
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I use xampp portable on windows to running wordpress and it works like a charm.
Because it's portable, I just need to move or copy the whole xampp directory, then I can run it everywhere.
But, I need to shutdown the xampp first at both side of dev site and live site to prevent issues caused by locked files, temp files, and especially mysql db files.
Not every running side can sustain the loss of frequent temporary shutdowns by seconds.
So, I'd like to know:
Is there an approach to perform seamless push?
Best way to sync dev and live wordpress site.
How to perform auto pull from live site?
thank you in advance.
I have a production Wordpress site, but in parallel I want to run a development site. Once I am done with the development, I want to deploy it to the production site without ruining the current site regarding, users, comments, etc.
My current solution is to duplicate the production site, and re-install again- but than I can lose information.
Did not find any solution that can do it.
Any suggestions?
If you are developing a wordpress-theme/plugin, you can just dump the live-db, replace the domain and use it in development. After you finished developing, you can dump it again, insert/update your content for production, deploy only your theme and replace the db of your production environment with the one of your dev-environment
If your site has already go public, things will be more complex. I suggest you setup a maintenance mode and then dump the db to development site.
If you are developing theme/plugins, you can just upload the theme/plugins files. Leave the data in the dev site.
If you are modify the site through wp-admin(change theme/plugins settings), you have to upload the db data.You don't need to dump all data, for example, you don't need to dump the dev site's comment data and import to production site. But this way, you must know WordPress database schema very well.
Always, backup your site before you do any changes.
I am finding some problems uploading a WP site from my local web server to the official online web server.
The situation is the following , on my local web server:
I have installed WP website on my computer
I have configured it
I have installed custom a template
After, I have uploaded this site in a folder on my official online web server. I have took the local database export and imported in the online database using PhpMyAdmin (to export the local database on a file and then to import it on the online database)
Finally I have changed the file wp-config.php changing the MySql connection settings and putting here the settings related to the official online database.
When I try to open the website it appears to me, here you can say how: http://www.scorejava.com/wordpress/
Ok...seems good but there are two problems:
If you try to open an article it is not open the article on the online server but in the localhost server, infact open this URL: [code]http://localhost/wordpress/?p=81[/code]
If I try to open the administration panel opening this URL: [code]http://www.scorejava.com/wordpress/wp-admin/[/code] I obtain a white page
I don't know if these two problems are related together but I think that all may depend due to a problem of location path...
I think that somewhere there is some settings that specify the URL (that can't be localhost...), but (if it is so...) where is this setting? in some file or in the database?
Some one have an idea? Can you help me?
Look into this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
There's a link on there for a "Search and Replace for WordPress Databases Script" tool that's very handy (make sure to read the instructions and have a backup of the db before using it). The problem is that image URL's and other things are stored in the database and will reflect the URL of the dev location. That tool will go through and properly update all instances from the dev URL to the final location.
Normally before you move a WP site you also want to update the site URL in the General settings as well, which may be contributing to your second problem.
Ok, so I'm familiar with creating local Wordpress builds, and have been chugging along happily with the technique outlined in Smashing's MAMP-based article. My question goes a step beyond this.
The article is great for developing generic themes, but when developing sites (not necessarily blogs) based in Wordpress, for me at least, it's a little painful come launch day.
I have to go back in and reconfigure the server's Wordpress to match what I've already done locally. Settings have to be entered again, plugins need be installed again, menus recreated, and css will have to be altered to reference the unique classes/id's Wordpress generates for posts/pages/custom taxonomies…sometimes things are missed in the process. What I want to know is this:
Is there an easy way to automate cloning or mirroring the build on my local machine to the remote server?
Even if you have to just LMGTFY me, that would help. I don't exactly know what I should be searching for. Searches dealing with 'mirroring wordpress configuration' and 'cloning wordpress configuration' returns tutorials on moving content, which I know how to do.
If it helps, I'm running OSX 10.6.8 with xcode dev tools, git, ruby, node, and homebrew. All of my live servers have ssh access as well as ftp, and I build with the most current versions of Wordpress.
Here are some easy steps to follow:
Download and install the WP Migrate DB plugin.
Go to Tools > WP Migrate DB and fill-in the blank fields(New address (URL), New file path and optionally check/uncheck the other options). Click on Export Database and save the export file to your computer.
Make a .zip archive with ALL of your files(the /wp-admin, /wp-content, /wp-includes directories and all files in the root directory).
Upload that file to your production server, where you want your WordPress site to reside.
Go to your cPanel(or use the unzip command through SSH) File Manager(or any other alternative that you might have) and unzip the file that you just uploaded.
If you don't already have a Database set-up on your production server - create one through the hosting control panel(for cPanel, it would be Creating a mySQL database in cPanel, for plesk it would be Plesk 7 Tutorial: Creating a database, for anything else, just google it up, or try your hosting's FAQ). Remember/write-down your Database Name, Database User and Password.
Edit the wp-config.php file and change the values for the DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and optionally DB_HOST - but this is usually localhost - if that doesn't work try asking your web host, or if you have phpMyAdmin, log-in to it and look at the very top of the page - in this case the DB_HOST would be localhost.
After you've done all of that, log-in to your DB administration tool(most of the time this would be phpMyAdmin, but it could be something else as well) and upload the database export file that you save to your computer in step 2. Note: If your hosting hasn't provided you with a DB administration tool, I would suggest that you upload the phpMiniAdmin(click on the "Download latest version" link and save the file to your computer) script to your production server. Then go to that script(if your website is located at http://example.com/, go to http://example.com/phpminiadmin.php) and enter your DB details. On top of that page, you will see an import link. Click on it and upload your DB export file. Note 2: phpMiniAdmin doesn't support gzip-compressed files, so if you did check the Compress file with gzip option in step 2, you will have to re-do that step with this option unchecked.
Log-in to your site and go to Settings > Permalinks in order to update your permalink structure.
Check the permissions of the /wp-content/uploads and /wp-content/plugins directories - make sure that you will be able to upload images and plugins without any problems.
That's pretty much it. It might seem like a lot, but I follow this process for almost every site that I upload to production servers and it can take me as less as a bit under 10 minutes to do all of that(considering that I usually use custom MySQL commands, instead of the WP Migrate DB plugin - I should probably start using it :) ). Once you get used to the process and you don't encounter any low-quality web hostings, you should be perfectly fine with these steps.
Note: Since you used ssh as one of your tags, I assume that you usually have ssh access to the production server. If you don't I'm still assuming that you have a cPanel access(if that's not true and you can't unzip files on the server, then upload all files manually via FTP client, instead of doing steps 3 and 4).
I guess the only way is to copy the database or part of it.
What I do is to copy the relevant tables and modify manually the site URLs in table options. There are only 2. There is also a nice plugin velvet-blues-update-urls to modify all links, after the site URLs are set manually to be able to access the backend, in case posts are also copied.
Next, copy all theme directory files to the same directory in the site, assuming you are using the same theme.
Both processes can be automated with a PHP script.
I am not sure this is what you want, but hope this helps.
Not sure that this is exactly what you need, but to move a site you can use the built in Wordpress "export" and "import" options. As far as I remember there was an option when importing to change URL's and the import would change a few things for you.
Even if this does not answer your exact question, hope it helps.
I have done a blog in mamp and would like to push into hostgator. Must i recreate everything in hostgator like Installing Wordpress on Hostgator. Is there any way i could just push my stuff straight into hostgator without redoing everything in hostgator. Need some suggestion.. Thanks..
It's quite easy to deploy a local version of Wordpress to a live server. First of all, you are right, I would not bother installing a clean copy of Wordpress on your server, you'd then have to totally rebuild the site.
What you need to do is;
FTP all your files from your local machine to the server.
Transfer the whole database from local phpmyadmin to a new database on the server
Change the database connection details in wp-config.php
Make any necessary changes to your default Wordpress .htaccess. What I mean here is that your MAMP site probably isn't in the root but your live site probably will be. If you have SEO permalinks set up then you would remove the Mamp subdirectory from the rewrite rule and the base in the .htaccess. Your host might also require you to add rules here (ie specifying which version of PHP to use etc). You could always install Wordpress using their installer to see if they add any special rules themselves.
All easy so far - now comes my tip. Moving Wordpress databases from your local development environment to live can be a massive pain because Wordpress (and lots of plugin/theme developers) use serialized arrays to store data. So if you do a find-and-replace on the database to replace your old url with the new one, you will disable lots of things like config settings and widgets (text widgets specifically, but there's loads of stuff you end up having to recreate).
Download this file;
http://interconnectit.com/124/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
and upload it to the server and access it directly in your browser. Run through the quick form and perform a serialized array-friendly find and replace on your database urls. Job done. Good luck.