Setting up a staging server?
Posted: Mon 30. Jul 2007, 23:53
I have been playing with phpwcms for a few days now, and am starting to get a feel for how it works. One thing I was expecting to stumble across was some kind of preview-before-publish facility (a.k.a "staging server" on big CMS systems).
The general idea is that you have somewhere to initally view your changes (maybe including some formal testing across the updated site) before making it live. I appreciate that phpwcms is intended to be lightweight (a Good Thing) but find the apparent lack of a preview facility a bit of a problem (the Preview button seems to publish immediately to the live site, unless I have missed something).
I intend to try setting up two phpwcms sites, with on-demand (not scheduled) one-way sychronization of both the database and the uploaded files from one to the other, in an attempt to setup a basic staging server.
The questions are:
- has anyone tried this before (if so, with what success?)
- are there any known better approaches to providing this kind of functionality?
- is it there already, and I just missed it?
Richard
The general idea is that you have somewhere to initally view your changes (maybe including some formal testing across the updated site) before making it live. I appreciate that phpwcms is intended to be lightweight (a Good Thing) but find the apparent lack of a preview facility a bit of a problem (the Preview button seems to publish immediately to the live site, unless I have missed something).
I intend to try setting up two phpwcms sites, with on-demand (not scheduled) one-way sychronization of both the database and the uploaded files from one to the other, in an attempt to setup a basic staging server.
The questions are:
- has anyone tried this before (if so, with what success?)
- are there any known better approaches to providing this kind of functionality?
- is it there already, and I just missed it?
Richard