environments

Setting Environment for Testing and Production

I'm developing a system in CakePHP, using Git as the version control system. I have a working copy in my testing server and another in my production server, both with different databases. Everytime I make changes, I have to change the database configuration so I can test the system. Is there another way to keep two files, with different ...

Grails auto reload functionality in run-app on a custom environment

When running a custom environment with grails via grails -Dgrails.env=custom run-app it appears that the auto reload / hot deploy is turned off, does anyone know how to arbitrarily enable this for any given environment, not just dev, which appears to be the only env where it is actually on by default? ...

Setting up development server references

What would you guys recommend as good references for setting up a testing server (xampp on xp pro), a staging server and a production server while also having svn? I'm a noob to "hardcore" development but want to start off on the right foot and set up my environments like the pros do. I have several projects coming up and want to take tw...

Setting up dev and test environment - network question

Hello, I want to setup test and dev environment which will be identical to production environment. All the environments are behind a router and has many VMs To reduce configuration burden, can I have the same IPs (private IPs or machine names)? Meaning suppose I have 3 VMs in each environment a weblogic, a database, and a CAS VM. All ar...