I am looking for info on how to more easily move from a development (usually my local computer) to a production server. I have read snippets saying you can use config files (not sure if that is htaccess or what) to easily move a development file/site to a production server. It seems to be a difficult concept to google without knowing specific terms to search for so I was hoping someone(s) here can point me to some resources that will explain or teach me how to manage this process. Using absolute paths helps but I just want to streamline the process as much as possible if I can. Any tips or links are appreciated.
I am also looking for an easy way to manage files/pages in subfolders. The problem arises when I have a folder that needs to fit into the site template, image paths from my css files (if they are relative) become broken when I just include the css files. I have switched all images and links to absolute links to get around this for now. Is that the preferred method to solve this problem, or is there an alternative? Again any tips or links are appreciated on either of these points.
