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Go Live Checklist: Pre-Requisites

Pre Go Live

  • Before working through this checklist you should have already performed the following steps:
    • Setup the Production environment:
      • Hardware and other infrastructure components.
      • App Server, Web server and other software components.
      • OFBiz and BigFish installed and configured.
      • Product Load.
      • SOLR configuration and setup.
    • Frozen any content on your Staging environment.
    • Completed your final testing on the Staging environment.
    • Migrated the content from Staging to Production.
Learn More: Migrating Content

Go Live Checklist

Data Verification

  • Most of these tasks are resolved by generally browsing throughout the Production site:
    • Categories and Products
    • Verify specific content
  • Site Info: header and footer
  • Home Page Spots
  • Page specific spots
  • Static Pages
  • Category content

Configuration Verification

  • Verify System Parameters
    • Assuming that these
  • Verify Email
    • Admin arrow Tools arrow Email Test

SSL Certificate Setup

Confirm Credit Card Setup

  • Check your configurations
    • Admin arrow Payment Settings
    • Confirm the gateway settings and available credit cards

Technical Configuration Tasks

  • Directory access for XML imports and exports
    • Check the Feeds system parameter values
    • Make sure that the directories are created and have the correct access rights
  • DB Backups
    • Confirm your database is being backed-up on a regular basis
    • Recommended at least daily
    • Not a BigFish specific function or feature
  • Scheduled Jobs
    • Admin arrow Scheduled Jobs
    • Confirm that all scheduled jobs are configured correctly
    • Consider:
      • Abandoned Cart Email
      • Client to BigFish Feeds
      • Product
      • Product Ratings
      • Order Status
      • Stores
      • BigFish to Client Feeds
      • Customers
      • Orders
      • Contact Us Events
      • Request Catalog Events
  • Cache Configurations
    • If appropriate
  • URL redirects
    • Ensure that any existing URLs are going to redirect to an appropriate page in your new BigFish implementation

SEO

  • SEO Friendly URLs
    • Admin arrow Admin Tools arrow SEO Friendly URL
  • sitemap.xml
    • Admin arrow Admin Tools arrow Sitemap XML Generator
    • Generate XML Sitemap
    • Save this file and place it in the root directory
  • robots.txt
    • If appropriate you should have a robots.txt file deployed in the root

Serving Static Files from Apache

The Apache rewrite rules defined in Deployment reference guide (see the Apache settings section) allow for files to be served by the Apache web server rather than passing the request to the application server.

This gives you the ability to place files at the root of your URL structure where search engines expect to find them. Good examples are Sitemap.xml and Robots.txt.

First, determine the "Document Root" defined in the VirtualHost tag of your web server configuration (httpd.conf file). For example on Linux the document root might be "/var/www". Place your sitemap and robots files in that directory and make sure permissions are set so that the web server has read access to the files.

Now you should see the files by accessing them with the following URL structure:

http://www.yourdomain.com/Sitemap.xml

Final review of your Production environment

  • The best way to verify that your new BigFish is operational is to use it.
  • Browsing:
    • Home Page
    • Product Listing Page
    • Verify some faceted navigation
    • Product Detail Page
      • Ratings and Reviews
      • Post a Review
      • Verify PDP content
  • My Account:
    • Create an account
    • Test with login, logout
    • Test with mixed case of user name (should have no impact)
    • Add Addresses
    • Change Personal Information
  • Purchasing
    • Add to Cart
      • Checkout:
        • Verify Shipping, experiment with different locations
        • Verify Tax, experiment with different locations
        • Test promotions
      • Verify Payment:
        • Credit Card
        • Paypal
        • Google checkout
    • Other Functions:
      • Contact Us Form
      • Store Locator

Go Live!

  • Paymet Settings:
    • Change Paypal to “Live”
    • Change Payment Processing to “Live”
  • Change your DNS.

Go Live Checklist: Post Go Live

General Checks

  • Verify via Google Webmaster Tools, or similar, site to ensure that the sitemap.xml and robots.txt are being found.
  • Verify at least a few of the URL redirects.
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