Exporting/Importing from a Development Environment to Production Environment

In this scenario, you use a development environment to create configurations (and possibly also personalizations) and then export those to the production environment. You must take care in this process to preserve the existing configurations.

  1. Create a backup of your production configurations. In your production environment, use the Export option in the Configuration Console or use the Configuration Data Export utility.

    Administration Console > Configuration and Personalization > Configuration > Export Configurations

  2. If you also want to work with personalizations, create a backup. Use the Configuration Data Export utility.

    Administration Console > Configuration and Personalization > Personalization > Export Personalizations

  3. In the development environment, run Verify Configurations (cdverify) to ensure that the configurations you want to export are valid in the current environment.
  4. In the development environment, export the configurations you want to later import to production. Use the Configuration Data Export utility.

    Administration Console > Configuration and Personalization > Configuration > Export Configurations

    Administration Console > Configuration and Personalization > Configuration > Export Personalizations

  5. Import the file from the development environment. Run Configuration Data Import.

    Administration Console > Configuration and Personalization > Import Configurations and Personalizations