I have been searching for a broad answer to this question for a while.
I am developing a website using wordpress and have a fair amount of css/html/php/js knowledge. In the past, I have made websites on my local machine and then registered them with a domain name.
This time, a friend has offered to help as he has experience with the marketing/business aspects of web development.
As I said, we are using wordpress, and I would like us both to be able to access the website as it would be viewed online, as well as the backend in order to make changes and complete development however we see fit.
I have considered a number of options for how to do this, but I would like some guidance and see what people recommend. I see my options as this:
(1) Meet up with him and host the wordpress site on the local IP to edit together.
(2) Enable port forwarding so that he can access the wordpress remotely and we can edit together.
(3) Load Ubuntu onto an old machine and host the website using DynDNS.
(4) Buy actual server space and host the website with the express intention of editing it remotely and later hosting it to a new domain.
(5) Using git or a repo system (this idea is not as good because he does not have experience with such a system and does not seem ideal for web hosting).
Which of these would seem ideal? If we ended up looking to build more sites, which of these options would be best?
Thanks! Also, if there is an old StackOverflow that answers this I would appreciate it.
Personally, I have used options 3 and 4 with great results. Being that I already have server space and it was not a problem to host it there. I'm not sure if this is relevant but I'm pretty sure GitHub is an option too. I've never used it but I think it would work for this.
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As a frontend engineer and where the freelance market seems to be, I'd like to dig into some WordPress stuff and build one for myself to at least know how to play around with it. And soon later I'll dig into backend and probably would deploy a dynamic website.
I'd like to find an option for a way that could host both, and also I can learn and develop more in such hosting method.
I tried heroku but its policy changed so the current way I forked on GitHub wouldn't be available soon. I cancelled bluehost subscription cause I believe it's not gonna be suitable for future deployment with dynamic website.
I've seen aws but its services are too many that I have no where to start with.
I'm so confused with all hosting options and iaas paas saas even tho I tired to read articles to understand them. Plus information online is like crazy a lot so that I have no idea which should I start with.
I am fine with paid service,
Could anyone share some experience with me?
If you are just getting started with web hosting you should use firebase hosting (You can't host Wordpress sites in firebase). It is completely free for hosting and also has a free database. You can deploy react.js apps or basic html,css,js websites in firebase. If you are using next.js you can check out Vercel. After exploring all of these you should try to get into the fun stuff such as Hostinger, WP Engine, DigitalOcean which support wordpress, static sites and dynamic sites.
I am not an experienced engineer like you are, but I have used these and trust me they are worth it. I hope this answer helps you
Good day Experts,
I need to implement subversion on our WordPress websites.
I have never worked with Subversion before. I have however read-up on it and understand the principles.
We have a Development environment consisting of only one server hosting multiple (about 10) WordPress websites. Then we have a Production Environment that consist of 2 servers, one hosting only the WordPress Files, and the other hosting the WordPress databases. The production Environment is the live environment and we want to completely stray away from making any changes directly on here before it has not been tested via the Development Environment.
I need to implement subversion to basically track the changes on the development environment (obviously with functionality to roll back to a previous version if something goes wrong) and then to make it quick and easy for the team to publish to the Production Environment without having to use FTP – may I add that the sites is about 6GB in size on average. Also as it is the design and development team that is going to work with this it would be nice to have a GUI to work from. (I think they are going to give me grey hair if I need to train them on using console commands.)
Our hosting provider supports SVN and Git. I only have been looking at Git and like I said I understand the principles.
But what I cannot get my head around is how to implement this in our environment. Keeping in mind that this is WordPress Websites and that the Production Environment consist of 2 different servers. Like how do I push the database over to the production environment to a different server than the files?
Sorry if this is maybe stupid questions, but like I said I have never worked with any form of subversion before.
If anyone can send me in the right direction on how I could implement this. It would really be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I would like to develop a website for a company with a lot of different functions. I decided to use the Symfony 2.0 framework for the first time and started reading the documentation and also a video tutorial.
After a week reading the documentation I still have some general questions unanswered. It would be great if you could help me with them:
Which client OS do you recommend to work with Symfony2? Windows doesn't seam appropriate.
Can I develop the whole website on a local Apache server and than upload the files to a regular webhosting server and use it?
I bought a regular web hosting (www.cyon.ch) is this recommended? I can't use any console on it.
I'm really confused and I'm sure I'm asking quite some stupid questions. It would be great if you can help me understand better how Symfony2 works.
Thanks in advance!
Windows is OK, as long as you have PHP and MySQL. There are several package that can do the job.
You can. In fact you should. Common workflow is develop on localhost and test on test server, and then move to production server. You should use a SCM like git.
Theoretically you can. But you won't have access to many console features that are really useful, like updating the database schema, flushing cache, download dependecies automatically, etc. I know some people doing this (copying everything with vendors), that's heavy and insecure.
When it takes half a day to update the app, you don't hurry when you have to apply security patch. Unlike Wordpress or Drupal, Symfony has no other 'easy way' to update vendors and third party modules than command line interface. So it is really not a good idea. You can find a lot of VPS with full ssh access, that cost less than 10$ months.
I work on windows just fine. For wamp server, use Easyphp. Everything is easy to configure and most important; cli and apache users use same php.ini
Yes, but it is bad. You should use either svn or git. I find svn easier to use and both of them have UI variants: TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGIT.
No. You need console access and php5.3 minimum.
So, I've been setting my sights on MS Azure for quite awhile as my top hosting choice. I have a trial account and since I am still in the development phase of my ASP project, I wouldn't want to have to spent a cent yet.
However after a month, the issue of how I am going to host my website came into mind. I haven't tried Azure yet, however assuming I want to host it privately or using a VPS to save costs, how exactly do I transition my project for hosting?
Azure has a toolkit which handles the uploading and whatnot for me, however if I engage in VPS services, how do I set-up my website and will the cost difference be something worth looking at?
A lot depends on what your needs are. "Hosting an ASP.Net website" covers a pretty broad spectrum from a simple one-page site that no one but you and a couple friends look at to a complex and highly trafficked site like StackOverflow. Telling you what you need to do to host your site is impossible without more details. However, to get you started with some basic information so that you can ask a better question I recommend you start with this page, scroll down to the paragraphs labelled "Web Sites" and "Cloud Services".
I develop on a local machine a Wordpress site and I'm now looking for a mechanism to deploy it easy and fast. I'm thinking about a DEV environment (located on my local machine), a STAGING environment (a subdomain on the client page, maybe staging.example.com) and of course a LIVE environment (example.com)!
My current workaround:
As I work with Aptana I'm able to sync my changed files with the deploy mechanism the IDE provides. Exporting my local database, finding/replacing the permalinks and importing the whole thing - finish! To deploy live, I have to replace all staging files with the live files.
This should be easier! Is there anyone out there, having a better workflow?
I'm open and really excited about your ideas!
Thanks a lot
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Yep, it's frustrating and completely insane that Wordpress requires this process because they put absolute urls in the database. I develop in a similar fashion using multiple staging sites for qa and client review. After my first deployment with Wordpress I almost gave up on the platform entirely. All of the solutions recommended by core developers and others simply didn't work.
So I wrote a plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/root-relative-urls/
that fixes the problem. With this plugin you don't need to do a search & replace on your content. No hosts file hacks, or dns tricks. With my plugin you can access the site via IP address or Computername or any type of forwarded host. And since it converts urls to root relative before they enter the database, you won't have to worry about them working between the different domain formats. And since they don't hard-code the scheme (http/s) in the url you won't have to worry about the 520 or so bugs that were reported in the wordpress trac database if you use SSL.
It's a staple for any wordpress project I work on these days. And I have written a couple other plugins to deal with idiosyncrasies that exist in the platform that you can check out here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/marcuspope
Hope that answers your problem.
I use Capistrano https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/ for all my deployment needs and it is really good solution. You can simply script anything and it just works.
It could work for your deployment scheme too.
I also use Capistrano for both WordPress and Drupal deployments. I typically install modules locally for testing then push to test and production environments. For uploads, etc. I add custom tasks to manage syncing files stored in scm and those that are not. Here is a simple guide I put together.
http://www.celerify.com/deploy-wordpress-drupal-using-capistrano