From Local to Staging to Live Using Version Control & Deployment

How to setup a (WordPress) website development environment to build sites locally, deploying them to a staging server first before pushing them live.

1. FROM LOCAL TO STAGING TO LIVE Using Version Control & Deployment Tools Mark Wilkinson | @wpmark
2. WE WILL COVER •  The  Problem  
3. WE WILL COVER •  The  Problem   •  Local  Development  Setup  
4. WE WILL COVER •  The  Problem   •  Local  Development  Setup   •  Version  Control  
5. WE WILL COVER •  The  Problem   •  Local  Development  Setup   •  Version  Control   •  Staging  /  Production  Site  
6. WE WILL COVER •  The  Problem   •  Local  Development  Setup   •  Version  Control   •  Staging  /  Production  Site   •  Deployment  
8. THE PROBLEM
9. FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL FTP
17. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results Albert Einstein “
18. SETUP LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
19. LAMP LINUX/APACHE/MySQL/PHP
20. MAMP MAC/APACHE/MySQL/PHP
21. http://localhost
22. <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "/Users/usr/Dropbox/Dev/htdocs/mdw" ServerName wpmark.dev ServerAlias www.wpmark.dev </VirtualHost> /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/extra/httpd-vhosts
24. CONTROL VERSION
25. TRACK CHANGES
26. REPOSITORY LOCAL SITE PRODUCTION/LIVE STAGING
27. REPOSITORY LOCAL SITE PRODUCTION/LIVE STAGING
28. LOCAL SITE GITHUB FOR MAC
29. REPOSITORY PRODUCTION/LIVE STAGING DEPLOYMENT TOOL
31. HURDLES http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurdles_(Scenes_from_a_Track_Meet).jpg
32. wp-config.php
33. http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/wordpress-local-dev-tips/ if ( file_exists( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/local- config.php' ) ) { include( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/local-config.php' ); define( 'WP_LOCAL_DEV', true ); } else { // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ }
34. .gitignore
36. SETUP STAGING/PRODUCTION
37. STAGING LIVE SERVER Ÿ CLIENT ACCESS
38. DATABASE SYNCING Ÿ MIGRATION FROM LOCAL
39. RECAP
40. DEVELOP LOCALLY
41. DEVELOP LOCALLY UNDER VERSION CONTROL
42. DEVELOP LOCALLY UNDER VERSION CONTROL USE DEPLOYMENT NOT FTP
43. DEVELOP LOCALLY UNDER VERSION CONTROL USE DEPLOYMENT NOT FTP DEPLOY TO STAGING FIRST
44. DEVELOP LOCALLY UNDER VERSION CONTROL USE DEPLOYMENT NOT FTP DEPLOY TO STAGING FIRST DEPLOY TO PRODUCTION
45. DEVELOP LOCALLY UNDER VERSION CONTROL USE DEPLOYMENT NOT FTP DEPLOY TO STAGING FIRST DEPLOY TO PRODUCTION DATABASE NOT THAT IMPORTANT
46. THANK YOU QUESTIONS? Mark Wilkinson | @wpmark