This may end up just being a support request, but I figured I’d start here. I’m trying to populate our dev server with events from our live server, and I’m not 100% clear on how to do this. I’ve looked into the instructions on this page, and while it’s mostly clear, there are some particulars I could use some guidance on.
LiveWhale set up our dev server (we use the cloud hosting) and hosts our databases as well. Comparing the /core/config.php files from the two sites, the DB credentials and locations are currently different.
I hesitate to provide much more detail here since there’s a lot of server information involved, but figured I’d at least start the conversation here in the forums.
Thanks in advance,
Brian Byrne
Web Content Administrator
University of Central Oklahoma
After coming upon these instructions for creating a new dev server, I checked the /?hosts URL on the live and dev sites. It looks like both site’s host options are still pointed at our staging site—the one LiveWhale built for our initial launch.
Hey Brian – I think those steps are going to be work eventually, but it looks like there may be some hosting dev/prod connection setup steps that our team can help with (at no charge). I’d suggest submitting the Help Request Form and tagging a Hosting Question, and let us know the issues you’re having with the content pull and our team can check it out.
Awesome, all set – for future reference if anyone else runs into this, if you see the “This server has not yet been configured as a pull source…” message, the steps for setting that up are visible if you go to /livewhale/?updates_pull on your production site:
That popup when you click “Configure this site” will give you a code string that gets plugged into /livewhale/core/config.php on dev (to authorize it to push upgrades and receive content syncs), and then in the same spot in production you add 'PULL_SOURCE'=>'myschool-dev.lwcal.com', to tell it where your dev server is living.
But, this is almost always something our team would set up for cloud-hosted calendars and sites for you, so feel free to submit a hosting question using the Help Request Form if it’s giving anybody trouble.
