Our company has a website that we're about to launch. The site has been in a staging environment for several months being built. Everything has been QA'd and it's solid. Tomorrow, we're going to copy the entire site. The copy will become the staging and the staging will become the full production site. Can anyone help with migration strategies? In other words, if I make a change to the staging site, how to I move it into production? Ideally, we'd have a situation that would allow us to move a specific page or element that's been updated. More to the point, in the next couple of weeks I may need to build out the website to add a new product that we're launching but if we have a press release the needs to be pushed out, I need to be able to do that without pushing out the pages I may still be working on that aren't ready for prime time.

Synchronizing a development site with a production site is one of the less developed areas in DotNetNuke.  There have been some discussions that this will be addressed in the Version 5 or Cambrian releases of DotNetNuke, but that won't help for now.


Lee has shown how to move pages in this tutorial: How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke

I believe that many of us test concepts and modules on our development sites, but do the actual prototyping and page development on hidden pages on the production site.  It's fairly easy to hide pages, either by removing them from the menu structure, or making them visible only to administrators.

I would also recommend you look at:
How to synchronize local and live DotNetNuke installations

and for transferring entire sites:

• How to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and restore it to a localhost installation
• How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website