Title: Production to Development migration
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Production to Development migration

 *  [animagic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animagic/)
 * (@animagic)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-to-production-migration/)
 * I am new to a company and the previous Web Developer up and left without any 
   hand-off of information. I have a small website with both a Development site 
   and a Production site. Both sites are nearly identical minus a few updates on
   the development site. I would like to bring my Production site into development
   to test the updates I have made in development as well as upgrade the site and
   plugins to the new WP 4.0 but I am having trouble getting the Production site
   into Development and maintaining the sites integrity at the same time.
 * The web server is SUSE Linux with Apache, PHP and MySQL
 * Steps I am taking to bring Production into Development:
    -Backup Dev and Prod
   WP directories (tar) -Dump Dev and Prod MySQL databases -Extract Prod.tar into
   my home dir -Edit wp-config.php to change the DB from Prod to Dev -Edit the Prod
   SQL dump reflecting URL changes from Prod to Dev site. -Restore the Dev DB with
   the edited version
 * —Everything works on the Development site at this point.
 * -Move the current Development WP files into a Backup directory
    – rsync the extracted
   Production files into the now empty Development directory
 * Upon moving the Dev environment and placing the Production environment into Development,
   the site still works and the theme stays intact but none of the images show on
   the site. This includes buttons, special drop down windows, etc. Also, all of
   the plugin images (such as the icons next to the plugin names in the admin window)
   are all not loading as well. All links go to the Production site as well instead
   of the Development sub-domain, even after updating all of the Database values
   to reflect the sub-domain.

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 * [development](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/development/)
 * [production](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/production/)

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 * Last reply from: [animagic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/animagic/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/development-to-production-migration/)
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