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    <p>I am working on a web application that runs on the LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mysql PHP) and would like recommendations on improving my workflow.</p> <p>I have 3 environments:</p> <ol> <li>My local machine AKA my <strong>development</strong> environment</li> <li>A <strong>staging</strong> account on my dedicated server so that I can test the web app</li> <li>A <strong>production</strong> account on my dedicated server</li> </ol> <p>I do all the development on my local computer and use a subversion server which is located on my dedicated server. I set up a hook script so that whenever I commit, my "staging" account is updated with the new code.</p> <p>Once in a while I make sure that everything works fine on the staging account and push the changes to my production account via a small script. </p> <p>This works well enough for the most part, but there are a couple of irritations: </p> <ul> <li><p>My domain name is hard-coded in a couple of places, making it time-consuming to switch between environments. I can modify my hosts file manually but it's not exactly fast and it doesn't work for the 2 accounts (prod/staging) on the same server.</p></li> <li><p>I've no way of keeping the database up-to-date across all three environments. I could use the same database for all environments but I would have to take the risk of breaking the production environment. </p></li> </ul> <p>So, my question is: what could I do to mitigate these problems?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The hard coded domain issue is introduced by a 3rd party software and therefore, "not hard coding it" is not an option at the moment.</p>
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    1. COOlivier: I've edited your question in an attempt to make it more specific. SO isn't a forum, and tends to work poorly for "any comments on this?" questions; I think you did a good job of identifying specific problems in your final paragraph, and so have attempted to emphasize those (also altering the focus of the title away from a solicitation for anecdotes)
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    2. COcan anyone plz tell me whats the general convention and meaning associated with dev, stg and prod. It seems that I am confused about their meaning (or it seems I have been using the convention/semantics which are not in sync with what others are using). Thanks
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    3. COI believe this is the usual convention: Dev: environment for developers Staging: environment for quality assurance (before pushing changes to prod) Production: public environment
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