Check out dreamhost. Shared hosting keep costs down and you get full shell access.
But yes, I would recommend baking locally and uploading. You can even limit the edits you need to make by customizing your database config file a bit. http://edwardawebb.com/programming/php-programming/cakephp/automatically-choose-database-connections-cakephp Also if you have the domain url pointing to webroot you shouldn't need to edit .htaccess unless your webhost is doing something obscure. On Jan 15, 9:39 am, mark_story <[email protected]> wrote: > Most non-shared hosting companies do provide a shell. You can > sometimes get a Java client with applications like cPanel or Plesk as > well. If you are just running bake and such most people will run that > locally. If you write shells that you need to run remotely like > maintenance scripts etc. Then you might want to consider moving to > different host. > > -Mark > > On Jan 14, 2:06 pm, Bob Albert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm new to this group and CakePHP so please excuse these questions if > > they've been covered on the list. I have been working through David > > Golding's "Beginning CakePHP" book from Apress. I just got through the > > chapter were he describes the Bake scripts. > > > My question is how others use this in the real world given that most > > hosting companies don't allow shell access. Do most use these scripts > > in a dev environment such as a local box to build out the application > > and then just move the files to the prod environment when done, thus > > shell is not needed cuz all the bake scripts are done in Dev? > > > Also it looks like there might be some tools for Bake that one can > > install on these hosting companies that allow you to use Bake scripts > > via the browser like webbaker? > > > Thanks, > > Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
