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refreshing (cloning) Enterprise Portal environment

Hi,

I have to create a production environment from a development environment. I have copied the file server and application server files and created the database, but I am trying to figure out exactly what to copy from the web server environment. I have copied everything under bea/wlserver/conf/peoplesoft/applications/PORTAL/ps to the same directory structures on the new web server.

Problem is the links on the left hand navigation pane do not work in the new environment.

Anyone have a list of steps for refreshing, or cloning, a Portal environment??

TIA,

SureDBA (more like unsureDBA)

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Registered: Jul 2003
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PeopleSoft recommends re-installing PIA when when refreshing/cloning an environment. It seems possible, though I have never done it.

For best results, when refreshing/cloning, I would do a re-install of PIA.


-Batman

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Hi Batman,

Thanks for the quick reply. There are a lot of customizations in the Portal. Would we then have to reapply them the the new PIA environment?

SureDBA

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When you say customizations, what type of customizations? With your reply, I'm guessing that you have made customizations outside of PeopleSoft? I would then copy the directories that have your customizations in them and apply them to the new instance.


If you mean something else, let me knnow.

-Batman (aka Tracy)

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You should copy all changed delivered code and all custom code. And I would use some form of change control (like Visual SourceSafe or CVS) to manage the "static" pages of your environments.

mp/m

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