Moving from development box to live website

Thursday 22 January 2004 2:15:39 am

Hi Mark,

Design changes (look and feel of your site) has nothing to do with the DB, where mostly the content sits.

Two things are important here:
1. the override.ini (override setting of site A: settings/siteaccess/site_A/override.ini.append) and maybe other setting files (for example image.ini.append if you have changed the image sizes in the new look etc.)
2. the design directory (override templates of site A: design/design_A/), where you have the stylesheets, images and templates

When you change the look on your development server and it's working allright. The only thing you have to do is, backup the files you're going to change on the production server.
And overwrite them with the new ones.

In the database there's nothing stored that has something to do with the look of your site. So don't bother doing overwriting the whole DB to the production server, as you might only be losing new contents.

The crucial thing here is to backup everything you're going to change.

Hth,
-Shurbann

Thursday 22 January 2004 6:41:24 pm

Yup you're right changing a class will change the DB. But till I don't think classses are part of a site feel and look.

In my case everytime I add a new class on the development server, I make sure I do the same on the production server. I mean how many times are you going to change or make a new class after launching your site? (this is not THE time-consuming factor, IMHO)

-Shurbann