I want to port over a Drupal commons 6x24 from a local LAMP-stack to a production webserver. Both systems run OpenSuse Linux. How do I do this, what are the most important steps. How should I handle file-ownership.

It's important for me to have to have full control of the file ownership. If I use the wwwrun account, I frequently run into problems, due to a very strict webserver-admin.

See for example the long history of looking for fixes and solutions see this thread and even more interesting see this very long and impressive thread here.

All troubles I run into have to do with file-owernship and permissions. This is my current setup; Note: This was just a quick hacked installation - quick and dirty. Well my interest is after the general options i have in the port of a drupal from linux to linux

linux-vi17:/srv/www/htdocs/com624 # ls -l
insgesamt 224
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www 45285 19. Jan 00:54 CHANGELOG.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www   925 19. Jan 00:54 COPYRIGHT.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www   206 19. Jan 00:54 cron.php
drwxrwxrwx  2 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 includes
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www   923 19. Jan 00:54 index.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www  1244 19. Jan 00:54 INSTALL.mysql.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www  1011 19. Jan 00:54 INSTALL.pgsql.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www 47073 19. Jan 00:54 install.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www 15572 19. Jan 00:54 INSTALL.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www 14940 19. Jan 00:54 LICENSE.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www  1858 19. Jan 00:54 MAINTAINERS.txt
drwxrwxrwx  3 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 misc
drwxrwxrwx 35 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 modules
drwxrwxrwx  4 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 profiles
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www  1470 19. Jan 00:54 robots.txt
drwxrwxrwx  2 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 scripts
drwxrwxrwx  4 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 sites
drwxrwxrwx  7 root www  4096 19. Jan 00:54 themes
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www 26250 19. Jan 00:54 update.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www  4864 19. Jan 00:54 UPGRADE.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root www   294 19. Jan 00:54 xmlrpc.php
linux-vi17:/srv/www/htdocs/com624 # 

thx to BetaRides answer here a quick overview on the drush functionality with rsync

http://drush.ws/

core-rsync

Rsync the Drupal tree to/from another server using ssh.

Examples:
 drush rsync @dev @stage                   Rsync Drupal root from dev to stage 
                                           (one of which must be local).       
 drush rsync ./ @stage:%files/img          Rsync all files in the current      
                                           directory to the 'img' directory in 
                                           the file storage folder on stage.   


Arguments:
 source                                    May be rsync path or site alias. See 
                                           rsync documentation and              
                                           example.aliases.drushrc.php.         
 destination                               May be rsync path or site alias. See 
                                           rsync documentation and              
                                           example.aliases.drushrc.php.         


Options:
 --mode                                    The unary flags to pass to rsync;    
                                           --mode=rultz implies rsync -rultz.   
                                           Default is -az.                      
 --RSYNC-FLAG                              Most rsync flags passed to drush     
                                           sync will be passed on to rsync.     
                                           See rsync documentation.             
 --exclude-conf                            Excludes settings.php from being     
                                           rsynced.  Default.                   
 --include-conf                            Allow settings.php to be rsynced     
 --exclude-files                           Exclude the files directory.         
 --exclude-sites                           Exclude all directories in "sites/"  
                                           except for "sites/all".              
 --exclude-other-sites                     Exclude all directories in "sites/"  
                                           except for "sites/all" and the site  
                                           directory for the site being synced. 
                                            Note: if the site directory is      
                                           different between the source and     
                                           destination, use --exclude-sites     
                                           followed by "drush rsync @from:%site 
                                           @to:%site"                           
 --exclude-paths                           List of paths to exclude, seperated  
                                           by : (Unix-based systems) or ;       
                                           (Windows).                           
 --include-paths                           List of paths to include, seperated  
                                           by : (Unix-based systems) or ;       
                                           (Windows).                           


Topics:
 docs-aliases                              Site aliases overview with examples 


Aliases: rsync