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John Mina	Monday 29 March 2004 5:20:13 am What are the diff between both, in the point of creating web project why is it recommended not to use the installer except for testing??? What to do if i have alreay did a lot by the installer, how to immegrate? Any Clue? Sincerely John
Lazaro Ferreira	Monday 29 March 2004 10:46:20 am Hi, I think one of the problem is that when you use the installer, it affects your server setup, because you are installing the web server, the database server ,etc Beside that, when using the installer you will end with a pre-defined server setup: paths, server settings, etc,etc In production environments hardly you will need this kind of installation, because a production server is supposed to have its web server, and database server previously installed and tuned, so installing that stuff again is useless and can affects the server normal operation Ultimately you can consider EZPublish, as a collection of dir and files stored under some main directory at your server So to move your installation the only thing that you actually need is to copy or move that set of files to the new location keeping the proper dir and files permissions at the new server You will also need a database backup, tipically a .SQL file, that can be obtained by a DB Server dump command (i.e mysqldump yourdatabasename -r yourbackup.SQL ), it will contain the database structure and data So beside copying the dir and files, the only thing that you will need is to import your .SQL file to the database server available at the new server (i.e mysql yourdatabasename < yourbackup.SQL ) Of course, you may also need to change some settings at settings/..., but it has nothing to do with using an installer setup or a distribution setup Lazaro http://www.mzbusiness.com
John Mina	Monday 29 March 2004 11:52:47 pm Hi Thanks for your reply, i was thinkging of that for long time ,adn was really confused about it. Regardign the SQL file? i have a folder that is having a group of files for the db that was created by Ez. So is that files that you mean ? for yourinfo I am using windows platform, that is why i used the installer . but soon i iwll move the website from my local machine to a server to get published on a an apache server. What steps and backups do you think ih ave to do ? Sincerely JOhn
Lazaro Ferreira	Tuesday 30 March 2004 8:35:29 am Hi, As I said before, you only need to copy or move your ezpublish dir to your web server Before doing that you can run the mysqldump command from windows command prompt, as I explained above. It will create a unique file that contains the whole mysql database information We use to create a sqldump subdir within ezpublish dir, that way we can move the whole site (files and database) using a tar or zip command Once you unzip or untar the files at the server, you should import the mysqldump file into your mysql server, and change the settings (database settings, url settings, etc) as you need to run the site at your server Finally you should clear-all ezp cache, that's! I didnt mention Apache or Mysql SETUP here, if you don't know how to do you should search for the info in the forum, or as for help at your hosting company Hope this help Lazaro http://www.mzbusiness.com
Karsten Jennissen	Tuesday 30 March 2004 8:44:08 am I also would recommend, that you do a fresh tar.gz install if the new server is Linux based and only import the directories: var, settings, design. If you copy a complete windows installation to a unix machine, you might run into trouble For further info, see this doc: http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/backup_restore/move_to_new_provider Karsten
John Mina	Wednesday 31 March 2004 4:08:02 am HI , Thanks a lot for trying to hel pme but i got the follwoing mysql> mysqldump news > news.sql ; ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'mysqldump news > news.sql' at line 1 So what do you think ??:(