That sounds close to current best practices, which go even further - ideally, the deployment infrastructure should be automated to such extent, that your production server is not a unique snowflake, but in fact an immutable image (in terms of configuration) identical to your staging server (except just a handful of parameters like IP and hostname).
But you should be free to experiment on a staging server for that purpose, which should be trivial to replicate to production by a push of a button. That said, it is an ideal and takes some effort to set up. One approach to get you most of the way there is https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace . Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:54 PM, James Holobetz <[email protected]> wrote: > My IT department who manages our physical boxes and the stack that Dspace > runs have adopted a "hands off" policy on the production machine. All > changes are done on a development machine and a patch is made to be > installed on the production machine. On the production machine I have > limited use of the dspace user account with no editing capability, only the > ability to run [dspace]/bin/* functions (mainly ./dspace oai import -o, > media-filter, index-discovery, etc, etc). > > I find it frustrating and would like to hear some thoughts from the Dspace > Community. > > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
