Hi Toby,
I have worked like this on a few projects.
The basic setup we used was to have a separate website for each developer.
In our case the webserver was IIS so it was a case of creating a directory
to hold the application files for that user.
To illustrate:
suppose you have users: andy, spike, bob and fred.
Your application is called spectrasite and can be reached at the domain
spectrasite.com
If you have control over DNS add entries for andy.spectrasite.com,
spike.spectrasite.com, bob.spectrasite.com, bob.spectrasite.com and
fred.spectrasite.com
If you don't have control over DNS add these entries to the hosts files in
each of the client machines and have them point to the IP Address of the
spectra server.
On the Spectra Server create a directory structure something like this:
sites
andy
spectrasite
wwwroot
customtags
includes
plp
rules
sites
spike
spectrasite
wwwroot
customtags
etc...
For each of these directories create a web site which points to wwwroot and
another which maps the /allaire/spectra/ webserver mapping to the same name
on each of these sites on the server in order for the Designmode tools to
work. The website which points to sites/spike/wwwoot/ should redirect
requests for spike.spectrasite.com to that directory and the same should
apply for each of the mapped developer names.
Also on the spectra server add a ColdFusion Mapping for each of the
developers: /andy/, /spike/, /bob/ etc. You may need to make these names
different if you have a lot of developers, but the important thing is that
they should map to the first part of the FQDN you specified either in DNS
or in the hosts file.
Each of these should point to the root directory of the same name.
All custom tags must be called with cfmodule using the syntax:
/#listfirst(cgi.servername,'.')#/spectrasite/customtags/tagname.cfm
All PLPs, rules, handlers etc. should be called with the same syntax to
make sure that each developer gets files from his/her own site.
Now you have the ability for each developer to work independently of all
the other developers for the application for a single install of Spectra on
the central server. Once code has been verified the developers can check it
out using the tool of your choice to their own directory on the server.
When you decide to deploy you will probably want to update all the custom
tag calls so that they aren't dynamic.
We normally use CVS on Linux as the repository and WinCVS as the client
Spike
HTH
At 04:53 27/09/2001 Thursday, you wrote:
>Apologies for the OT post, but I really need some input here...
>
>We're trying to set up a new dev/staging/production environment with source
>control. One of our major problems / decisions is based aorund the
>development cycle and how it works with source control. Obviously the maxim
>"work locally, store globally" is the perfect ideal. When you're talking
>about something like C development this is simple - you just need a local
>compiler. But we're running CF and Spectra, and several of the developer's
>boxes are not capable of running local copies of spectra.
>
>I don't want a situation where I have to check out a file locally, edit it
>blind, check it back in again, somehow move it to a browseable directory
>then refresh the page and see my changes. When I'm trying to debug
>something that's going to be a nightmare. Especially if we use CVS instead
>of MS Source Safe (and we'd prefer to implement CVS), because then we have
>an extra client to deal with, thus more alt tabbing all over the place.
>
>So I'm trying to work out the best solutions - how to handle the serving of
>these pages, where to check out to,(working directories) etc. Can anyone
>lend some insight as to how their company does things, or how best they
>might implement something? We can't do away with spectra as we have several
>large jobs requiring it, and we're pretty much stuck with not being able to
>run a local copy of spectra on everyone's box.
>
>any help at all would be appreciated...
>
>cheers
>Toby
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