On 23 Mar 2011, at 10:04, Jonathan Grotegut wrote: > I am curious why you edit files directly on a server? I always like to make > sure I have copies of my files just in case I really mess something up I > have something to go back to. > > Maybe it is because I don't regularly backup my websites as they do not > change very often...
I much prefer editing on a remote server for web development. Note that I am not editing live files on a live web server, but it is a remote server. My biggest reason for preferring this is that I only have to set up the development environment once. I can connect from any machine and I have PHP, MySQL, and Apache installed, configured, and ready to go, and exactly where I left them. It's also very beneficial for a team. We don't have to all have Apache installed on our work stations with the special config and mod_rewrites, or a separate copy of the database architecture with all the dummy data, etc, etc, etc. My preferred work environment is a development server that all the developers work off of via SFTP. They check their code into and out of version control from there. The other thing that is really nice about the remote server is that anyone can preview your development sandbox from anywhere. If it was on a local laptop, then it'd be offline when the laptop was asleep o r turned off. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
