Computer Hope
Software => BSD, Linux, and Unix => Topic started by: Geek-9pm on December 19, 2017, 02:26:42 PM
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This link was find while using the Ubuntu demo DVD. Strange how when you try something a littel different yhou learn new things.
Top 8 Best LocalTesting Environments for WordPress (https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/testing-environment-wordpress/) ** footnoete
Many site admins take advantage of these environments where they can do thorough testing before committing changes to a site. If you’ve ever activated a new plugin or upgraded to a new version of WordPress only to find errors on your site, you will know the importance of testing first.
There are many ways you can set up a test environment, but the easiest by far are localhost environments or cloning your site on your existing web hosting account.
He goes on to recomend this article for first-time wordpress users.
How to Install XAMPP and WordPress Locally on PC/Windows (https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/setting-up-xampp/)
The tool he mentions is XAMPP and can also work with Ubuntu.
Myself, I have only use Instant Word Press on Windows. :-[
Anybody here use any local environments tools for testing Wordpress? :)
** Here a 'local environment' means a software thing that lets you us Apache, MySQl and PHP on a machine that is not really aservier. It can be used for testing some server-side appliocations without acually going live on the Internet. Microsft has something like that but not considered here.
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I have a virtual machine running I run a local webserver on. I make any changes to the software in the virtual machine, then I manually push the changes.
One avenue I have not yet tried, but it is possible is rsync.
rsync can handle both the files and the database(s).