[Phpwm] project deployment strategy

[Gavin Kimpson]

Thats quite ironic as I was basically going to ask practically the
same question!

I too would welcome any ideas on this topic, I have been looking at
various version control options but cannot determine which is the best
suited.

Any ideas would be really appreciated!

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kevin
Portman<developerkev at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'd like to say I've found the mailing list extremely useful over the
> last few months. Information and views of those that contribute have
> helped greatly in expanding my knowledge surrounding PHP and web
> development.
>
> To the question - we're currently looking in to a project deployment
> strategy and would like to hear what everyone else thinks on this
> subject.
>
> We have a local development server (with CentOS and SVN), and a remote
> hosting server (linux with plesk) which will be used for our
> test/prototype and live sites. We're looking for a robust method of
> getting a particular version of a project from SVN to the test/live
> sites without going through the manual export (via tortoiseSVN) and
> upload via ftp process.
>
> Ideally we'd like to be able to go directly from SVN to the test/live
> sites and have SVN handle the process, enabling us to confidently say
> which version of the project is on the test and live sites. For
> security, we were hoping to 'push' the transfer from the development
> server to the remote server.
>
> Along with this, we'd need to consider tracking MySQL database changes
> (changes to the schema and static data, not user generated data). Any
> ideas on the best way to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input on this topic.
>
> Kev
>
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