[wp-hackers] Two different servers, one wp install

[David Chait]

Feel free to contact me offline if you want to discuss this in further
detail, but I'll give you the quick notes....

At the conceptual level, this is exactly what I do right now with CHAITGEAR:
my 'test' site is being locally run/hosted, and then I push code/hacks up to
my provider for 'releases'.  Content is developed up externally, with a
backup script to copy necessary tables back locally.

I have code in the config which detects what machine it is on and changes
the DB that it runs against.  Once you change the DB, everything else
changes with it.  The major issue is that, like mine, you'd need to decide
who 'owns' changes to the DB tables -- I let the external site own the world
and blast/overwrite my local tables (posts, cats, etc.) when needed.

That make sense?  So long as you are running two servers, two DBs, just
syncing a few tables is pretty easy work.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <deirdre at deirdre.net>
To: <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: [wp-hackers] Two different servers, one wp install


> I have deirdre.net, which I host externally, as well as deirdre.org, which
> I host at home. I've always rsynced the same files to both sites -- just
> right now I exclude certain directories from the deirdre.net site.
>
> I've considered making the blog the main web site, linking to a few static
> pages as well.
>
> However, there's the problem of what site it thinks it is as well as
> connecting -- conditionally -- to one db vs. another.
>
> Has anyone done this before? I think I know enough to manage it, but if
> someone has already done it, I'd appreciate pointers for any gotchas I
> didn't think of.
>
> -- 
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