Publishing to the production organization

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.

Windows Web Hosting-specific information

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.

To transfer Windows Web Hosting files:

The \inetpub\wwwroot folder content is copied from pre-production organization to the production organization.

MS SQL-specific information

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.

To transfer MS SQL information:

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