Installing Drupal

I have been developing a Drupal site at staging.mydomain.com so that my old site is still live. I am now ready to migrate it to the www.mydomain.com. What steps should I take to do this? I'm wondering if I need to install drupal again at www.mydomain.com, but then I don't want to redo all of my work with nodes and blocks. What is the best plan? This is my first time attempting to do this and I have SSH access and all that, so now I just need a plan of attack!

I have a single code base, multisite install with separate databases for each site.
One of my Drupal sites in in sites/school.mysite.com. I have another domain name "school.othersite.com that I need to point to school.mysite.com. I want the exact same content to show for both.
Do I need to use symbolic links? ln -s school.mysite.com school.othersite.com
I have a dedicated server with root access. In which directory would I run this command? Is there a setting in settings.php that I should use?

thanks

hello, im trying to install aegir on centOs linux, and after a few searches i found this guide:
http://drupal.org/files/issues/Install%20Aegir%20on%20CentOS%20rp%20v0.1...

Seeking suggestions about a multihoming setup. Drupal is not finding my site's folder to install itself. I keep thinking I've figured this out once and for all, but no...

Setup: Drupal 6.20 on OSX 10.6/Apache 2, multihoming (multiple hostnames and IP addresses) and multiple Drupal codebases. I'm admin.

Site folders are like so:
/DocRoot/mysite1-drupal-6.20/sites/mysite1.mybox.com (mysite1.mybox.com has its own IP address and its own Drupal codebase)
/DocRoot/mysite2-drupal-6.20/sites/mysite2.mybox.com (ditto), etc.

(I just like doing it this way, and it's worked well for me in the past.)

When trying to install, for instance, mysite2.mybox.com, I get:
"The Drupal installer requires that you create a settings file as part of the installation process.
Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php."

Database is set up, permissions are ok. Apache is routing mysite1.com to correct folder. (If I set up a flat mysite1 site, it works)
But seems like Drupal will only look at sites/default.

httpd.conf points mysite1.com to /DocRoot/mysite1 (which is a symlink pointing to mysite1-drupal-6.20).
mysite1-drupal-6.20 sites folder:
/default
/mysite1.com (copied from default/)
--- settings.php (copied from default.settings.php)

Hello @All.

I need some help after instaling Drupal 6 on Xammp with PostgresSQL on Vista.
The installationprocess passed successfully and the welcome Screen loads once, but now each time I try to load a page in got a blank white screen. I could figure out that the problem is the cache table in postgres db, cause each time I truncate the table a/one page loads fine. Every page I try to load after this will become a WSOD. truncating the cache table and reloading the page will load the page successfully for one time.

How can I verify the installation of URL Rewrite 2.0 on Vista?

At least I think this is the issue. I get a 500.19 Internal Server error when I go to my drupal web site: http://localhost/drupal-6.19. The error points to the <rewrite> element on line 21 of the web.config file distributed with the drupal 6.19 download, and if I comment out the <rewrite> elements, I do get to the drupal installation page. I have not done the installation yet. Researching this error seems to indicate that I need to install the URL Rewrite module for IIS.

I downloaded the 2.0 version of this module for x86, but when I try to run it, it tells me that I have a version of the software already installed, and need to remove it using add/remove programs. When I look for the program to remove it from Vista, I do not see any program named URL Rewrite.

I removed and reinstalled IIS, used Web Platform Install to install PHP. Installed MySQL. PHP test scripts for php version and MySQL work.

Perhaps I have a different problem, but from my research so far I think the following process should work to install drupal 6.x on Vista with IIS 7.0: (note: I also removed static file compression as I read that it could impact the URL Rewrite module 2.0)
1. install IIS by adding the feature using the control panel
2. install php using Windows Platform Install