[ic] moving a catalog from a test to a production server

René Hertell interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jun 19 02:56:03 2002


> 1) copy the complete catalog root with all files and subfolders.
> 2) make sure the permissions are appropriate (interchange daemon
> user needs rw access to all of it.
> 3) link <catroot>/error.log to
> /var/logs/interchange/catalog/error.log or wherever.
> 4) link catroot/images to images folder in your public html space.
> 5) link the admin ui images folder 'interchange' in public html
> space to actual location.
> 6) copy any global usertags which are not in your catalog structure.
> 7) edit the variable.txt to set appropriate domain names if these
> have changed.
> 8) if using MySQL/Postgres/Oracle, set up database access.
> 9) put a link program in your cgi-bin, make sure it is chmod u+s
> and owned by the interchange daemon user.
> 10) add the catalog to the interchange.cfg file.
> 11) restart ic.
> 12) check global error.log for any error messages.
>
> missed anything?

You have to go though the mv_metadata and look for the product::image
variables found there. There are a few dirs that are hardcoded by the
make-cat script. I have made a bug-report with the variables that have to be
checked:

http://icdevgroup.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=426


Regards, René