UAT Environment to Production Environment

[Pip]

Hi guys.

Sorry reliving my appreciation with Processwire after a really long break. 

I have a test environment and production. 

Test is where I play and when things are final, I put it in Production. 

Problem is how do I migrate the structures and fields to Production? 😕 What's your best practice to ensure that live data is not ruined? 

Thanks in advance and sorry for the noob q. 

 

[BrendonKoz]

Hey there, Pip! Welcome back. 🙂

If you're only going to migrate once, developing up until it's ready to be launched, you can typically just get a backup of your SQL and move it to the production's database (along with your /site/ files and related structure).

If you're going to be doing development after the website is launched, and you need to make sure that the development you do does not affect data created on the production website, you'll want to look into something like RockMigrations, or any of the other migration modules.