How do I move my development environment to my production site?

The Unicon Academus installation is designed to be as self-contained as possible. Hence, it is a simple matter to archive the entire structure and relocate it to another host. Once the archive is opened on the target host, there are several properties that need to be manually adjusted before the new instance can be started up. However, bear in mind that the underlying binaries (j2sdk, httpd, mod_jk, etc.) will not be compatible with a different operating system.

In order to relocate your development portal, please complete the following steps:

1) Stop all Academus related services on both your development and production portals.

2) If you currently have a portal running on your production site, create a backup of the entire /portal directory.

3) On your development site, archive the entire /portal directory

4) Copy the archive to the production site and unzip/untar it.

5) Modify the necessary property files

6) Start your new production portal

A list of the property files that will require modification can be located in the Academus 2.0 System Administration Manual in section 6.0 – Relocation.

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