Sounds good, but, aside from a new website, wouldn’t I want to leave the live MySQL database alone? Especially if my client has made changes while I was working on their website and assuming that none of the changes I made affected the database structure?
On 28 Sep 2012, 7:32 pm, Todd wrote:
Don’t upload the config. file, there’s no need. Remember to export the local db and import it into the remote server and upload any site files that may have been changed. That should do it.
Yes that’s a problem, and in that case you definitely do not want to overwrite any changes they made. I assumed the site wasn’t live yet and therefore the client didn’t have access to it (Perch). If the only changes you’re making are to the site files and not the db then you can ignore my suggestion about the db export/import.
Todd
On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:38 PM, “RavenManiac” email@hidden wrote:
Sounds good, but, aside from a new website, wouldn’t I want to leave the live MySQL database alone? Especially if my client has made changes while I was working on their website and assuming that none of the changes I made affected the database structure?
On 28 Sep 2012, 7:32 pm, Todd wrote:
Don’t upload the config. file, there’s no need. Remember to export the local db and import it into the remote server and upload any site files that may have been changed. That should do it.
Okay, now that I have my local development server setup, as well as the live server, how should I handle a staging server? I was thinking about just using a subdomain off of my own website.
I setup a sub-domain on the client’s server and use that for staging. Since it’s already on the end server I’ll know if there are any issues unique to that environment before going live. Of course, as Walter has suggested numerous times you could also get a VPS hosting account and use that but might be a bit more ‘hands-on’ than simply using a sub-domain.
Todd
On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:54 PM, RavenManiac email@hidden wrote:
Okay, now that I have my local development server setup, as well as the live server, how should I handle a staging server? I was thinking about just using a subdomain off of my own website.