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How can I decide if I should roll my own software or use a packaged CMS (and appropriate plugins)?
I'm a software engineer with little web experience currently in the process of wanting to actually using my web host and domain name for something other than a file dumping ground for files that I ...
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Is it bad to develop against production data?
I've always heard that it is bad practice to develop against production data and am currently in the process of moving to a Dev>Stage>Production model, mainly because I have a new employee with ...
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What is the most effective way of deploying a website?
I am aware of a few ways to deploy websites:
FTP
Export from source control
Base the site on a source control checkout
I can see some upsides and downsides of each. Is there any consensus on the ...
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How can I update my site without forcing users to wait?
Downtime is inconvenient for users and currently they have to wait any time a site's engine is being upgraded. Additionally, when using off-the-shelf scripts there's a risk that a setting change won't ...
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Combine websites without hurting SEO
I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. ...
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Can you recommend ways to manage code deployment to a Linux based web server?
I've always used a very simple bash script to deploy code. I'm moving away from using subversion to Mercurial but I don't really think the revision control software matters for deployment.
What are ...
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Should I use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, or download the source directly and install
I am used to finding the source code for the sites I set up (like blogs or CMS's) and I have used the Web Platform Installer to try out new packages and setup my development machine, but I haven't ...
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Rolling Updates in a Webserver Farm?
Big websites (Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo etc.) don't schedule downtime for upgrades. Usually they are done "live" and rolled progressively through the server farm. They also have big infrastructure and ...
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Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch
I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime.
Some ideas that come ...
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Deploying Complex Changes
Occasionally we need to deploy fairly complex changes to a website which require changes to databases (new or changed tables) and dynamic source code (such as PHP or ColdFusion). What is the best way ...
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I need an alternative to Pligg.com [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I was working with Pligg - The Social Networking CMS and it seems like a great software. But there are few things ...
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How can I version-control and deploy a website's static files while preserving timestamps?
I'm using NanoBlogger to generate a website that consists entirely of static files—no PHP or anything similar.
I'd like to place the site under version control, which means managing both ...
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How to grep (or find) on cPanel?
How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager?
I have been using a library directory and functions ...
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How to Install OSQA Q and A application in Apache
How to Install OSQA Q and A application in Apache Server. I have mod_python installed but still I am not able to run OSQA. I could not find the easy instruction to install it.
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Migrate user accounts out of system with hashed passwords
I have a system with a few thousand user accounts that I need to migrate to a new platform. The system stores a hashed password, not encrypted or (thank goodness) plain text. Also, I don't have the ...
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Strategy for hosting 700+ domains names, each with a static HTML site
I have a portfolio of more than 700 domain names, and ideally I'd like to put up a single-page HTML/CSS/JavaScript webpage for each domain. Is there a system/strategy/workflow that will allow me to:
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Packaging a web application for deploying at customer site
I want to develop a django webapp that would get deployed at the customer site. The web app would run in a private cloud environment (ESX server here) of the customer. My web app would use a mysql ...
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What is a deploy script?
Conversation:
Me: How do we do the swap over though?
Won't there be downtime no matter how we do it?
X: Well, we will need to do a complete deploy script of all the steps that must be ...
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Is Azure Compatible with JPEG XR?
I just put an F#/MVC app into a Windows Azure solution as a Web Role. Before migration, my JPEG XR (*.WDP) files were getting displayed on the client in IE9 without issue via my local and hosted ...
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Upgrading Shopping Cart Software and SERPS
I operate a fairly large (45,000+ pages) ecommerce site that runs on an older ASP.NET 1.1 shopping cart that is a pain to administer and maintain but ranks really well. I'd like to upgrade to a .NET ...
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How to deploy Zencart on live environment
I have to deploy my zencart on my live server , when I deployed it on stage it was very painful.
I had to do everything step by step again , because of lots of customization it takes lots of time , ...
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Deploy error using capistrano [duplicate]
I get an error while deploying app to VPS by capistrano.
cap deploy:setup, and cap deploy:check executes without error!
when I try to cap deploy:cold or simply cap deploy, I get this
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VS2012 One-Click Web Publish using file hashes instead of timestamps
We have have a small ASP.NET MVC web application that we develop and publish to a remote server using Visual Studio One-Click Web Publishing. We maintain our code in revision control, make edits, and ...
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IIS 7 IP changed to machine name
I am having an issue with my server switching from using the IP address to machine name.
Yesterday, I went into IIS 7 and created a new application under the Default Web Site. I gave it an alias ...
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Rails app deployment with capistrano Killing assets precompile [closed]
on cap deploy:cold ro cap deploy, is triggered an error
[out :: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Killed
command finished in 9020ms
*** [deploy:update_code] rolling back
* executing ...
