On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > It'd be great to use rsync or ftp to keep my pages synced up between > my offline Boltwire install and my online install. >
Rsync is very good if you know how to properly set it up. I've seen people bite themselves setting it up improperly and not testing it good first. I for one don't do development that way. I do all my development typically on the same webserver where the site will be hosted either in a temporary virtual hosted website, or on the actual site by using page names that are not linked to the new pages being developed. It is easy to either transfer the whole site which would be the most or just specific files between the virtual hosts (on the same machine). > Any ideas about which files I should transfer? Just the files in the > field/pages/ directory? All the field files? > If I have to move content, it would include: ../field/config ../field/files ../field/pages I include config since I have a number of non-plugin standard changes that I use in the config.php file on all the sites. Never bothered to put them into a plugin form. It would depend also on if you have added new plugins and activated them. If that is the case you would need to include the plugin directory under boltwire/farm/plugins If you use something like cleanURL's then you need to be very careful that you don't setup a loop with your settings in the index.php file located in the field directory. I've done that once with cute results... Also with cleanURL's you might need to adjust the .htaccess file to allow non-BW files access if you use them. I BTW don't use the name filed, but instead call it home for reasons I forget now but all of my sites are setup that way. > Will this mess up the data that Boltwire is keeping about the pages in > any way? > Not if you are just transferring the files. I always stay in a Unix environment but I suspect if you are moving from Unix to Windows or back you might have some issues with linefeed differences. I don't know if Boltwire handles that. Unless you don't need them, the files in stamps might be needed if you wanted to undo changes on the site after moving the files. Also, after the move, you should reindex. and remove old files that are no longer needed that you may have removed. What are your general thoughts on using FTP for migration of Boltwire > pages? > In general, I don't. Almost 100% of my file moves are done either on the same server with an SSH connection or I at least scp/sftp to make the connections and transfers. But mostly all of the edits are done via Boltwire using its own editor. Any editing of files on the site like, plugins, config.php and the index.php in field would be done remotely using UltraEdit (has a built in sftp browser) OR buy using VI on the unix box. I don't do windows hosting.--
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