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Split one installation into two sites

Export the layouts of the site's subtree, import them on the new installation after its content.

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Split one installation into two sites

Bold Agency moves to its own installation.

Life cycle: Migrate, example 24 of 34. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents

  1. In the Layouts editor
  2. On the command line
  3. Which to choose
  4. Check

In the Layouts editor

  1. Remove the Bold Agency mappings on the old installation when the new one is live.

On the command line

  1. ./console exp:layouts export --only=<Bold Agency identifiers> --output=bold.zip (their shared layouts come along).
  2. On the new installation, after the content: dry run, import (with --publish it purges the page cache itself).

Which to choose

Identifiers make the selection exact.

Check

  • The new installation shows the Bold Agency pages with their layouts.

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