Porting an application

This appendix explains how to move an application from one server to another. There are various circumstances for which this is useful. For example:

• Moving an application from a test environment to production.
• Porting an application from existing servers to newer, more powerful computers.
• Moving an application from production to development, upgrading the application to new version and implementing new features, and then moving the updated application back to the production environment.

The administrative software generally resides on the administrator's desktop computer and would not need to be moved. But after porting an application, the administrative client software needs to connect to the destination server.