This isn’t as simple as drag and drop, but if you have a good understanding of what’s going on, it can be fairly simple. Basically, you have to concern yourself with 2 things: the files on your webserver, and the database. I’d recommend the following:
1. Use
mysqldump or a similar utility to dump the contents of your dev database into a file, then slurp that file into the database on the production webserver. The dumping could boil down to a line like this:
mysqldump -uyour_user -pyour_password -hdatabase_hostname database_name > /where/you/want/to/save/thedump.sql
The slurping would look something like this:
mysql -uyour_user -pyour_password -hdatabase_hostname < /where/you/want/to/save/thedump.sql
2. Copy your files from the development webserver to the production webserver. You can do this with an FTP client, but the thing you want to watch out for is the permissions. I could be more specific, but see if the FTP option (the drag and drop) works.
3. Verify that you webserver has the same PHP modules required to run MODx (usually, it’ll be really obvious if it doesn’t... something with break). Also, you’ll need to make sure that your database has the same user and password as the dev database ... the user info lives in a separate database (not the MODx database), so you have to be sure that the user info exists in the new database.
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