Syncing Tools

Two command-line scripts let you udpate your production server and sites remotely via ssh using rsync.

In fact, you can even remotely install and configure the alahup! engine and its websites without even logging via ftp.

• update_engine.php lets you install or update the engine from your local copy.

• update_site.php lets you install or update a site from your local copy.

Note to Windows users

On Windows, alahup! command-line scripts must be run inside Cygwin, which provides a Linux-like environment.

However, since the php binary from xampp resides outside Cygwin, the scripts must me launched in a different way.

First, move to alahup install, probably like this :

Then, instead of launching a script like this :

... launch it like this :