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We have a client who was getting errors when trying to add a lot of articles (like a dozen) to their live site in a short time span, but we found that after moving their site to a localhost they did not encounter the problem anymore. Now they are finished adding the articles on their localhost, and want to push the changes to the live site. The only change they have made is adding less than 100 articles.

My question is: do I have to migrate the entire site back from their localhost to the live server, or can I just export/import the database?

I understand there are Joomla extensions for migrating articles between different CMSs and between different releases of Joomla, but these two sites are exactly the same other than one has different database content. Importing the database seems like it would be the simplest solution, I just want to know if it actually works before plowing forward.

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    The text is in the database as is all the metadata. What is in the files is images and caches. So you need to copy all the images as files and maybe clear caches.
    – Ville Niemi
    Mar 26, 2019 at 17:51
  • It didn't occur to me that the images would be stored as files rather than in the database, but that makes sense. The articles in question are actually J2Store products, so they definitely have images. Do you happen to know where J2Store saves its uploaded images?
    – William
    Mar 26, 2019 at 18:00
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    No, I know nothing of J2Store but probably /images, if you browse the store your browser kind of has to know the url which contains the folder. But store components can be tricky.
    – Ville Niemi
    Mar 26, 2019 at 18:10
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    It looks like they are indeed in /images. Thanks, this is exactly what I needed to know, and I would've had a panic if I discovered this halfway through the process. If you want to write your comments as an answer I would accept it.
    – William
    Mar 26, 2019 at 18:14
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    Remember to take a backup, store components can be bit messy since they have lots of meta data. So you can actually lose data or mess up the store fairly easy by copying too much or too little.
    – Ville Niemi
    Mar 26, 2019 at 18:18

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You don't need to copy the complete database. We've done this already for migrate from a 1.0 to a 2.5. You just need to copy the complete data set for the articles and import the via sql into the live site.

Keep in mind to not mess up with ids. We've done it with a small python script to avoid errors. The script takes the content from old db, finds the related entries in other tables and insert them into the new database tables.

So yes it is possible, but you have to carefully and know what you are doing.

Sorry can't find the script right know, I thought I had it on github but it isn't there.

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