Re: confused about starting a new project

Werner:
Your comments (and those of others) were very helpful, and helped
remove one layer of mist in my understanding.  I'm responding mainly
to leave a trail for others who have similar questions.
What I did was:
- Entered a current copy of the remote site as a Local project
- Configured the upload profile to connect/update the remote site

For testing changes, additions, etc. I now see two possible routes:
(a) select 'Use prefix view' in properties, giving 'my.remote.host'
as the prefix
(b) just configure my apache server to recogize '/my.local.project' as the
local root for this tree.

In my case, I think (a) is easiest, because the site makes heavy use of
an SQL database that resides on my.remote.host and the website contains
a config.php file that specifies database username, password, database 
host, etc. Thus, to test the site on my local server, I would have to
make local changes to the config info that should not be uploaded to
my.remote.host.

Do you agree?

thanks again,
-Michael


Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Wednesday 19 August 2009 16:34:48 schrieb Michael Friendly:
>> I'm new to Quanta+ and am trying to figure out how to use it to manage,
>> edit, and test a web site created for me on a remote host on my local
>> development machine, also a server.  The site uses PHP almost entirely
>> and is backed by an SQL database.
>>
>> I made a local copy of the remote site file tree, and am confused about
>> how to set this up as a Quanta project.  Should I use the Local protocol
>> with the Main directory on my local machine or sftp protocol, with the
>> Main directory on the remote site?
>>
>> If the former (Local), I assume I will need to configure my local
>> (apache) server to recognize this file tree.  
> 
> correct.
> if you have already a local web/database server running, this is the 
> recommended setup.
> you'll have the chance to thoroughly test everything before transferring 
> changes to the live installation.
> additionally, you always have an automatic backup all the time :)
> just configure the upload profile in quanta correctly and you can sync the 
> remote site with just hitting 'F8' ..
> 
>> If sftp, how do I test 
>> things before they go live?
> 
> in this case, the live system is also the test candidate (not recommended) - 
> see above.
> 
> HTH
> 
> werner


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