Deploying a Site with Shared Resources

TODO Develop a workflow that incorporates GIT

• Would require SSH access to the production server.
  • Sites hosted by NameCheap and GoDaddy have SSH access.
  • Fall back on FTP uploads.

Site-specific files

• Make sure to upload /_config/app_config.php with development settings disabled.

This should be as simple as:

define ("IS_DEV", false);

• Do a full backup of the existing site if making significant structural changes.
  • Try to save the archive outside of the web directory on the server.
  • With SSH access:

tar -czvf [SITE_NAME]-[DATE_yymmdd].tar.gz file1 file2 dir1 dir2 ...

• Creates a gzipped archive named [SITE_NAME]-[DATE_yymmdd].tar.gz from the files file1 file2 dir1 dir2 ...
• -c create an archive
• -z compress the archive
• -v verbose mode
• -f specifies the name of the archive file

• Without SSH access:
  • Site cPanel > File Manager > select the files and directories to archive & compress
  • Be aware that the cPanel File Manager usually imposes a size limit on the files being compressed and doesn't work well with a large amount of images.
• Always download the archive after creating it.

• Copy local files to server.
  • Collect files into a single archive and upload.
  • With SSH access use command line to extract the files.
  • Without SSH access use cPanel File Manager.

• TODO: Git workflow

Shared files and libraries

• [COMMON_LIB]_ajax/ >> /_hostmgr/_ajax/
• [COMMON_LIB]_classes/ >> /_classes/
• [COMMON_LIB]_lib/ >> /_lib/
  TODO This directory needs to be cleaned up. Possibly the subdirectory error/ is the only one that needs to be uploaded.
• [COMMON_LIB]_templates/ >> /_hostmgr/_templates/
• [COMMON_LIB]hostmgr/sections/ >> /_hostmgr/sections/
• [COMMON_LIB]scripts/ >> /scripts/
  • jquery/
  • littled/
    • JavaScript code should be copied from the minified JS library file to its corresponding *-source.js file.
    • JavaScript code uploaded to server should be minified.
    • Do not upload *-source.js files.

• TODO: Git workflow

Database

• Do a complete backup of the existing database before making any structural changes.
  Naming convention [SITE_NAME]-[DATEYYMMDD].sql
• Store all updates to database data and structure in local _dbo/ directory.
• Update production database using cPanel > phpMyAdmin