Support #3202: Replicate site content for staging site - CUNY Academic Commons - CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System

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Replicate site content for staging site

Added by Matt Gold over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

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Resolved

Priority name:

Normal

Assignee:

Boone Gorges

Category name:

WordPress (misc)

Target version:

Not tracked

Start date:

2014-05-05

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Description

Hi Boone,

For the journal JITP, we would like to have our production site (http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) and our staging site (http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) mirrored exactly. Luke exported/imported from production to staging, but various settings/widgets now need to be done manually. Is there any way you can replicate those settings at the Db level for us to save Luke that effort?

Production - http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Staging - http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Thanks in advance for your help. I've made Luke a watcher on this.

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Updated by Matt Gold over 10 years ago

Assignee changed from Luke Waltzer to Boone Gorges

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Updated by Boone Gorges over 10 years ago

Yes, I can do a one-time sync. (By "one-time" I mean that it'll be a bit labor-intensive, so it's not something I can easily run periodically.) To verify: I'll be creating a mirror of content (posts, comments, uploads) plus settings, wiping out any existing content on the staging site. Because they're stored differently, I will not be copying over user roles. If this all sounds OK, please let me know and I'll move forward.

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Updated by Luke Waltzer over 10 years ago

That's fine, Boone. Thanks.

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Updated by Boone Gorges over 10 years ago

Status changed from Assigned to Reporter Feedback

Luke - This should be complete. Here's what I did:

- Exported production tables; did search-and-replace for URLs; overwrote staging tables
- Replaced staging uploads (blogs.dir/...) with copy of production files

I have backups of old staging DB and files in case something has gone wrong.

Can I ask you to take a look and make sure things are working as expected? In particular:

- whatever you were doing to protect the staging site (privacy setting? not sure) needs to be redone
- I noticed you're using subscribe2. Note that production subscriptions have been ported over. I'd recommend wiping these subscriptions on staging, or disabling subscribe2 altogether.

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