How to transfer a local Magento project into live server

moving files and database

I assume these two steps are obvious:

1. copy all of your local files to production server
2. dump your magento local db and import it into your production server db

editing in production server

now on your production server you need to follow these two steps:

1. edit app/etc/local.xml file and change database info
2. in production db,in its core_config_data table, you should find every records containing the url of your local installation, then you need to update those values;which can be found with this query:

     SELECT *
     FROM `core_config_data`
     WHERE `value` LIKE 'http://%';


3. Do not forget to delete var folder contents
4. it'd better if you remove the content of app/etc/use_cache.ser too 

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