Copying a web site

dzinser
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Copying a web site

Post by dzinser »

I'm moving my web site from a development box to production. I have already indexed my site and need to know if there is a way to copy the web site to the new server. I've read about the -c option, but my url is going to change, from dev.mysite.com to www.mysite.com. Will I have to re-index the site once I move to production, or does the -c option handle changing the url?

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Derek
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Copying a web site

Post by mark »

Webinator's -c option will copy the published contents of a website to your local hard disk. So you could use it to copy your static content across machines. Dynamic content will become static though. For machines I have control of I prefer to simply tar up everything and ftp it over to the second machine and untar.

You will need to walk the new site to get the right urls into the database.