WordPress-促进开发构建到生产

Question

I recently took over a WordPress site with the following directory structure inside of /public_html :

wp_config.php
/wp-admin
/wp-content
/wp-includes
...
...
...
/development 

The root (production) site is pointed to /public_html . Inside of /public_html , I have a sub-folder called /development . This subfolder has its own separate installation of Wordpress with a directory tree that looks like:

wp_config.php
/wp-admin
/wp-content
/wp-includes
...
...
...

You can access this WordPress instance via www.mywebsite.com/development . I am at a point where I would like to promote the development build to production.

What's the "WordPress" way of doing this? This is hosted on a machine that can be accessed via cPanel. I've noticed that while you can add "Addon Domains" and "Subdomains" via cPanel, you can't change the root public directory through cPanel. I would like to avoid SSHing into the machine and manually editing the httpd.conf file since that can cause conflicts with cPanel.

Is there a functionality in either cPanel or WordPress to automatically take what's in /public_html/development and replace /public_html with its contents?

Answer 1

I ended up taking the .htaccess and index.php files from /public_html/development and using them to replace the same files in /public_html .

Once you replace the two files, open up index.php (inside of /public_html ) and update

require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );

to

require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/development/wp-blog-header.php' );

with development being the name of the subdirectory you got your index.php and .htaccess files from.

After you replace the above two files, go to your WP Admin console associated with the build you would like to promote to production and then click on "Settings" -> "General". Find the Site Address (URL) input and update the value from https://www.mywebsite.com/development to https://www.mywebsite.com .