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

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, David Chait wrote:

> 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.

Ah, in my case, I was just going to use one db, which is considerably
simpler. I also had grandiose plans to do snapshotting in case the
database connection wasn't available.

> 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.

OK.

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