Development Server

tdnxxx444

I am wanting to setup a development server where my PHP code will reside before it goes onto the live server. Anyone have any advice / tips on how to set this up and how to move the code from the development server to the live server? I know .NET people use NANT and XCOPY, does any have any special methods they use?

leatherback

I am running an apache server, with mysql / PhP installed. My databases I copy using a MySQL dumpfile, and I use FTP to move the files from local to server,

MarkR

Personally I commit all PHP files to subversion, except for one, which contains the server-specific config info, f.e. database details.

Then in the staging and production environments, I svn checkout my working copy ( the appropriate revision) and then svn export it into my web directory.

The server config file I manually edit and copy into staging / production, as it needs to be different for each one.

My system currently doesn't deal with files being deleted very elegantly (i.e. svn export does NOT remove old deleted files). Other than that, it's fine.

Mark

tdnxxx444

Originally posted by MarkR
Personally I commit all PHP files to subversion, except for one, which contains the server-specific config info, f.e. database details.

I never heard of subversion before but looked it up and found that it was a version control software like CVS? Have you used CVS before and if you have is there a reason you decided to use subversion instead of CVS?