Migrating from a Staging Site

There are a couple of main ways you can use a staging site. One way is to develop on a staging site and then migrate to a production site, prior to going live. Another way is to clone a production site so you can test a new version of MemberMouse or something else before reproducing it in a production environment. 

While testing in a staging environment is crucial for some sites, it is essential to understand that the stage site can not be migrated over a live site. While the files may not be of much concern, the database is.

The live site has a dynamic database that fills with member activity, payment activity, email activity and more. The staging site will not have this activity logged, and if its moved over a live database, all that historical data will not be up to date and members can be missing, payments will rerun themselves, plus other unpredictable problems.

Due to this problem, it is crucial to copy the changes made on staging, into the live site instead.

Any attempt to circumvent this and do only a partial database migration will result in problematic payments and more.