From dev to production tips
How Do I?
I’m curious how other people manage their migration from local development to the production site.
Not talking about the files that can be used with a repository, sync, etc.
But the fields and channels, categories and other settings. They clearly will have different ID’s in the database, which mean you cannot just sync the database directly from dev to pro. Do you guys actually create every field, channel, then manually on the live site once your code is ready and working? This seems very annoying, having to do it from the interface one by one. In particular for larger sites.
Are you talking about a brand new site locally, moving to live? Or are you talking about making edits to a local install and then needing them synced to the live server?
Are you talking about a brand new site locally, moving to live? Or are you talking about making edits to a local install and then needing them synced to the live server?
From local development install sync changes to live. Not a new site, but existing one.
If the content hasn’t been updated on the live site, you could completely overwrite the live DB with the local DB and not have any issues. Other than that, changes to fields, channels, content, etc. would need to be added manually or imported in with an import plugin.
That is already how it’s done today. I was just wondering if someone was using a different strategy that was quicker, since the ID’s will not match between dev and production you can’t just update the schema and expected it work exactly, this is true for some fields like the upload folder which requires ID numbers instead of names.