I have a WordPress site under local version control with Git. I deploy it to the production server using Capistrano. For the initial deployment, I manually import the SQL database to the production server, and change all the local references by hand. Any content changes are made on the production server from then on. This … Read more
I am facing this issue: we have one developers environment, one test environment, then the production. I would like to restrict the plugin additions, menu changes, any other changes not related to actual blog writing to the lower environment set up process and then propagation to production. Say I am adding a plugin: In development … Read more
I have developed a web portal in wordpress using xampp server. i have my database in my sql. Now i need to deploy this wordpress portal on other system with sql server express edition. So how can i deploy it successfully with sql server?? and what software or driver or service will be needed for … Read more
On attempting to deploy a .net 3.5 website on the default app pool in IIS7 having the framework section set to 4.0, I get the following error. There is a duplicate ‘system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler’ section defined. Commenting off the offending lines didn’t help either. Any pointers on what I need to do or look at? 15 Answers … Read more
I would like to have WordPress on my local OS X machine to test out different themes, content, etc and then deploy it on to the production Linux server. I’m using WordPress for my website and blogging will be a secondary thing. What is the best way to do this? Please elaborate on the key … Read more
I was watching Mark Jaquith’s presentation at WCSF 2013 recently and in the Q&A Mark mentioned something about rsync – after a quick Google I can see this is done via SSH – my question is this: is this something that can be done to a local development environment? Do you still need to copy … Read more
I’m using Root.io‘s Trellis workflow. I’ve encountered an error wherein I couldn’t establish a connection via ansible-playbook. When I run ansible-playbook server.yml -e env=staging it throws me an error that the ssh connection cannot be established so I checked my users.yml file and saw a problem under the keys section: – name: “{{ admin_user }}” … Read more
I’m trying to work version control into developing a WordPress site, but I’m unable to solve the issue of DB synchronization. For simplicity’s sake, I will describe a scenario with just Live and Staging websites and repos: Pull down Live DB to Staging DB Do the same for code Install WP plugin on Staging. Tweak, … Read more
I have a DEV environment setup with wordpress installed, where I have a wordpress developer working every day. I don’t feel comfortable every time he changes something in the environment because there’s no way of tracking the changes he’s doing, so in the case there’s an error o we want to go back 3 days … Read more
After migrating a WordPress instance from one hoster to another, it’s impossible to upload any media. Uploads fail with the message “Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2016/11. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”. Also, WordPress tells me that the max file size is 2MB. I’ve tried the following already: Checking phpinfo(). Nothing suspicious there. … Read more
