I'm a newbie to pushing Drupal websites from local to live via a CP panel with a hosting company and wondered if there are any key steps I need to follow? I usually end up with Internal Server 500 errors or no themes showing so not a good start!
The steps I follow are:
Export the database from my local PHPMyAdmin
Log into my hosting CP Panel and create the database on there
Create a user for the database (with password)
Change the settings.php to match the database settings
Load all Drupal files via FTP
Create a 'tmp' folder in the 'sites > default> files' directory
What am I doing wrong?! Is it something to do with the .htaccess file as to why I either get the error or my theme never shows?
Any help would be much appreciated! So stressful and frsutrating as a newbie! Once I've done 1 I'm hoping it'll be plain sailing!!
Thanks!
C
You have the basic steps right. Check the php error logs on the server (probably accessible via the control panel if you dont have ssh access), they should give you more information as to what actually caused the 500 errors.
Doubt it is an htaccess issue unless you are doing something crazy in there.
Can you see he drupal admin at all? If so, clear cache, check watchdog for clues also.
It's easier to download and install Drupal again on the live server rather than to copy everything via FTP. The settings.php file is where your MySQL information is stored so this file should not be copied. Follow Drupal's documentation on how to install Drupal at https://drupal.org/documentation/install/download
To transfer your database, install and enable the Backup and Migrate module on your local server from https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate and back up your database locally.
After Drupal is installed on the live server, go ahead and copy your modules, themes, and files from /sites/all and /sites/default/files (or any non-Drupal core files that you may have created). Enable and use the Backup and Migrate module to restore your database to your live server. You may need to configure the php.ini file if the database is over 8MB.
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Hello i'm trying to deploy the Fraud Detection Use case that was shared in NEO4j use cases
Following this link: https://neo4j.com/graphgist/credit-card-fraud-detection
To get deeper in the data I want to work with the database that was shared in the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4uij4gs2iyva5bd/credit%20card%20fraud.zip
I don't know how to load it since there is no .csv file just .db with the same structure of system and neo4j Databases,
I have tried to create a Database and connect it to the path of the fraud detection file,
Anyone can help me please to work with this database
If you are using Neo4j Desktop:
Go to the management tab of your graph
Click "Open terminal"
Locate the folder data/databases/
Copy the content of the folder you downloaded from Dropbox into data/databases/fraud.db
Back to the management tab, go to the settings tab and identify the line:
#dbms.active_database=graph.db
Change this line to:
dbms.active_database=fraud.db
Restart your database
In case of error, go back to the settings and uncomment:
#dbms.allow_upgrade=true
I am very new to cms and I am wondering if you fine gentleman can help me get started properly. Just a note, I have spent hours researching my questions and I could not find the answer I was looking for.
I have installed silverstripe locally and i started creating my own site with it. Created a new theme, deleted the old 2. It created some random database for me, it was mostly automated. Now I have a server, and I want to put it on my server, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to import it. I was able to install silverstripe and have a default theme (simple) running, but no matter what file I copy or change, it never loads my site. Does anyone has a tutorial on how this is achieved? server is with godaddy.
When I started creating this site, it created a database with a random name, how can I rename that database? What are the files I need to update?
How do I access phpmyadmin locally? localhost:port/phpmyadmin does not works.
1. Site deployment
Here is how I deploy a Silverstripe website to a live server.
ftp into the server
Upload all the files from the development folder to the server
Create a database on the server
Create a database user for the database and add all database privileges
Update the live mysite/_config.php file with your live database username, password and database name
Dump your local database
Import your database dump into your live server database
Call dev/build/?flush=all on your live server
Check the website works
Have a beer
2. Database renaming
The database settings are stored in mysite/_config.php. They should look something like this:
$databaseConfig = array(
'type' => 'MySQLDatabase',
'server' => 'localhost',
'username' => 'database_username',
'password' => 'database_password',
'database' => 'database_name'
);
To rename the database, rename your database in phpmyadmin. Then update your $databaseConfig database name in your mysite/_config.php file.
3. localhost phpmyadmin
Webmatrix does not come with phpmyadmin. You can download it, extract it to your webmatrix html root directory and use it. Or you can download an alternative like adminer, which is a one file database manager.
With regards to renaming your database, see the comments above as they are accurate.
However you still seem to be having problems getting your database out of your local environment, so let's concentrate on that first and see how you go with it.
Note that there are at least two ways you can back up/export your local database:
1). Using phpMyAdmin (Or other web-based DB utility)
2). Using the command line (see the 'mysqldump' command)
You asked about using phpMyAdmin to backup your SilverStripe database so I'll address only 1). above:
As this is specfic to your own development environment and you've not mentioned how far you've got in setting this up locally, nor any error messages you may have received, myself and others can only go so far in helping you out with this.
If you've setup phpMyAdmin as per the installation requirements, it should be installed by default and accessible at this address on your computer:
http://localhost:80/phpmyadmin
The following will also work, as port 80 is the default for most webservers:
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
If neither of these work and you receive a 404, 403 or 500 error (The screen in the browser should tell you which of these has occurred) I'm pretty confident you've not set it up correctly on your system. My suggestion is therefore to go back to the phpMyAdmin docs and re-check you've performed everything correctly as per your own environment setup (e.g. for Linux, OS X, Windows etc).
Once you're setup correctly, have a crack at the DB renaming suggestions above and coe back for more help if you need it.
I would like to ask, if it is possible to get my database from an offline (not functioning) xampp ?
You see, I have backed up my database earlier but I am not sure whether there are all the data I need now and the DB is pretty big (like 50 tables). I wanted to go for a local implementation of apache, mysql and PHP for my web applications. So I have reinstalled mysql and want to use my own local apache server instead of xampp.
I would like to know where can I find some .sql or something that is stored in xampp that could be otherwise accessible via the phpmyadmin? Is it even possible? I have scrolled through the xampp folder and tried to figure out where it can be, but didnt find anything though.
Thanks for help.
EDIT
I am on a mac running mavericks.
First go to localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database as before you have. Then import your database file through browse.
If your database name exmaple.sql then create database name will be example and import example.sql
OK, I'm warming up to Git and DropBox for version control. I'm creating DNN sites and I'm in the process of using Git/DropBox.
I would also like to use Git on the SQL Server backing database.
Is there some sort of best practice that could be employed here?
I'm currently getting an access denied error when I attempt to create a repository in the SQL Server DATA directory.
You probably don't have permissions to make a .git folder in there. I would use the sql server tools to create the backup files elsewhere. I would then back those up. You should have no problem putting those in a git repo.
Hope this helps.
I set my database file location to a custom directory, then stopped the database service and added read/full rights for all users in the system to the file. After that, git had no problem adding the file to version control.
I'm using the Database Publishing Wizard in VS2008 to push changes to my hosting provider. It doesn't look like those settings go with the project (which seems a little silly to me), but rather they go with the machine.
On each new machine that I'd like to publish from I need to go through the process of digging up my database settings.
Is there a way to backup/export/save these settings to a file?
If so, what is it?
Hmmm ... it appears that the publishing wizard uses 2 config files for it's application configuration:
The Publish Database Wizard uses the
files user.config and hoster.config to
store configuration information. The
directory in which these files are
stored must have the appropriate NTFS
file system permissions set. These
files contain user names and encrypted
passwords. The passwords are encrypted
by using DPAPI.
user.config File
This file stores persisted host and
configuration settings for the Publish
Database Wizard. The user.config file
is located at %SystemDrive%\Documents
and Settings\%Username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Publishing
Wizard\user.config.
hoster.config File
This file stores options about Web
service addresses, user names, and
databases for shared hosting
providers. The hoster.config file is
located at %SystemDrive%\Documents and
Settings\%Username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Publishing
Wizard\hoster.config.
I'm trying to access these files in Vista (with VS2008 and SQL Express installed) and striking out. I'll keep you posted.
Update: Looks like I didn't have the Publishing Wizard installed after all. After grabbing the version for VS2008 here, and then installing (and don't worry -- you won't see any indication it's getting installed, but it does).... and THEN setting up my first database using the wizard, it looks like there are indeed some settings stored uder the 'Application Data' directory listed above. However, it looks like it's just a user.config, and then an XML file for each database configured. I believe you can backup each of these files for later use.