I hope you've got some source control going on in there tilespace ;)
On 16/11/2007, tilespace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Yeah so I'm a moron... Talk about misreading an article {rolls
> eyes}...
>
> To *properly* answer your question, our dev environment is a Win
> server with CF8 running on it (for our FC site) and another one with
> CF7 (for everything else that's been done), our live server is
> (currently) a Win box with CF7, our DB server is Win as well with
> MSSQL, we have another Win box running our DNS and finally we have yet
> another Win box that everyone here calls the backup server and it's
> just a file server (non-displaying). Everything is inside the network
> except for the live box.
>
> The process that we use (which was put into place before I came
> onboard) is setup a subdomain on the DNS server pointing to the dev
> box, build the site with a database named "dbname_dev". When done,
> test test test. Once approved by whoever's project it is, the site is
> pushed to the live box by the IT Director, the DB is exported to a new
> DB named "dbname_live" and a new DNS is created pointing to the new
> site (normally beta2.domainname.com). Again test test test. Finally,
> the DNS is changed to "www.domainname.com".
>
> We all work locally and push our changes up to the file server via SVN
> and then something is running that then pushes the changes to dev (not
> sure what that is yet).
>
> Anyways, I think that more accurately answers your question :)
>
> On Nov 13, 10:30 am, Matthew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Since all of my projects lately have been offsite, I've moved to
> > having everything stored locally for development. I got a shinny new
> > laptop to support this (it helped that my older t21 died).
> >
> > Anyway, I run CF 6, 7, and 8 installed as multi-server. The each have
> > their own windows service. I run apache on this machine as well, and
> > it's really very easy to define which JRun install to point to as part
> > of the the VirtualHost config. Combine that with named hosts (eg
> > test.something.com) defined in apache, and also defined in the hosts
> > file, and everthing can be run through port 80. Locally, I use MySQL
> > 4.x for my DB needs, however the power of a good virtual machine comes
> > in handy here.
> >
> > I've got an Ubuntu VMware image that handles my MySQL 5 requests. The
> > reason here is that my hosted sites are running on Linux. When
> > running MySQL in linux, the table names become case sensitive. If you
> > install FarCry on a local windows Dev environment, bad things happen
> > if you try to move the database through an export/import.
> >
> > I've also got a download of Oracle Personal ready to be installed on a
> > Windows 2000 VMware image as well as SQL Server 2000. SQL Server
> > won't install on anything but a server OS, hence I required this
> > server image. I think (but have yet to try) that 2005 (or at least
> > the express version) can be installed on a non-server OS.
> >
> > I've also moved to SVN for maintaining all of my local projects. The
> > next step is to start jumping into CFCunit and Selenium for testing.
> > Then using ANT to push changes from SVN to production.
> >
> > Matthew Williams
> > Geodesic GraFXwww.geodesicgrafx.com/blog
> >
>
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