Re: dev to production server

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:23 AM, James Yerge <james@nixsecurity.org> wrote: > On 09/07/2011 12:24 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: > > Does anyone have a procedure or know of any tutorials that explain how > to take a mac/apache/php/mysql dev environment and converting it to > production environment? > > Basically I want to host my own web site on my local machine now that > I have finished developing it. > > Thanks in advance! > > > I'm not familiar with MAC, however, there are projects out there that > provide everything you need, for the most part. Look up XAMPP, I used to use > this in the past before I setup my own personal server. > > http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html > > This should provide you with an environment necessary for development and > production. I currently run Arch Linux on my personal server and have > installed Apache, PHP, MySQL and so on via the package manager. For my > dev/prod process, I'm using Boilerplate, which provides a default HTML5/CSS3 > template. However, the nice thing about it is, they've also provided a small > build process using ANT. I've modified the ANT build script to my needs and > simply build my production environment using that, keeping my dev code in > tact and readable :) They've integrated the YUI Compressor into their build > process is simply minifies all CSS and JavaScript. > > Anyway, enough about that, just an example of what can be done. There's > always the option of compiling everything from source as well :) > > James > Thank you James. I appreciate your advise. Chris