Thread: Development to Production

We have installed AspDNSF on a dev machine and on our server at our hosting site and have been configuring and loading some data into the dev site.

What is the best way to move these configuration settings to the production site?

What is the best way to load the production site with the data entered into the development site?

Just back up the DB on the original location and restore it on the new location. Modify the web.config to point at the new DB (not necessary if you just overwrote the old one) and restart the site.

If you've got customizations to files then the process is basically the same, just copy the files over from the test location to the new server.

I assume the databse holds configuration, content and order, product, customer information. Is this correct?

If i backup the database on the dev server and restored it on the production server wouldn't it overwrite any new customers and orders entered in the production site?

It would, yes. If you're moving from a dev server to a live server that's already been up and taking orders, then the process changes a bit. You'll have to either manually move just the changes (for example, just the new rows in the product/entity/mapping tables if you were adding products), or have a DBA do a merge so the new DB contains the info from both locations.