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This is a drupal question asked by korzhik on 09 April 2009

i’m not sure this is right section for my question, but i want to get help from the community with issues related to moving my drupal site from dev server to production.
i thought that creating same database and privileges to it and checking out all the code from svn repository to the DocumentRoot would be enough, but it’s not so.
And of course i’ve corrected /sites/default/setting.php for the DB requesits.
But when i try open my site i see errors about unexistent tmp path and i’m sure there are another errors but my site works very slow, i cannot even open module list, or configure any blank page. I think it because of memory limit on production.
Thus i want to turn on drupal caching abilities, those where disabled in my dev version.
Should i have passed through installation process on a production? Is installation obligatory?

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