Publishing to the production organization
This feature might not be available to some organizations. Contact your service provider for more information.
The pre-production and production organizations' feature provides you with an option to test your Web site content and MS SQL database users and their permissions before you make them available to your customers or users. After testing the content on a pre-production organization, you can then transfer all the Web site content and MS SQL database users and their permissions to the production organization using the control panel. After you transfer the data, the production organization has the same Web site content and MS SQL database users and their permissions as the pre-production organization.
This feature is available for the Windows Web Hosting and MS SQL services.
The Publish page enables you to transfer all the files from the pre-production organization's \inetpub\wwwroot folder to the production organization. Files in the <exclude> folder are not copied to the production organization; content is copied to the production organization only from the \inetpub\wwwroot folder.
You can move all those files into the <exclude> folder that you do not want to be copied to the production organization. For example, you can move all the data files used for testing the pre-production organization to the <exclude> folder so that they are not transferred to the production organization. The <exclude> folder feature needs to be enabled by your service provider. Please contact your service provider about its availability and its location in the pre-production organization's file system.
To transfer Windows Web Hosting files:
On the Publish page, click Publish to transfer all the files from the pre-production organization to the production organization.
The \inetpub\wwwroot folder content is copied from pre-production organization to the production organization.
On clicking Publish, while the Web site content is getting transferred from the pre-production organization to the production organization, the production organization's Web site will not be accessible to any user.
The Publish page enables you to transfer all the MS SQL database users and their permissions from the pre-production organization to the production organization.
Ensure that the database names are the same for both your pre-production organization and production organization.
To transfer MS SQL information:
On the Publish page, click Publish to transfer all the MS SQL database users and their permissions from the pre-production organization to the production organization.
When you publish, MS SQL users are created for the production organization and they have the same permissions on the databases as the pre-production organization.
How to get to the Publish page