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apache 2.2 - Managing websites with Git under Ubuntu



So we've just received our new server which will be used solely for website development and version control.



I've set up Ubuntu (11.04 desktop edition, I like interfaces, sorry!) and installed Apache, PHP and MySQL - so far, so good.



We've decided that we want to use Git as our version managing system, since we've had good experiences with it. But... We're unsure of how to lay out, our structure. So I'm hoping you can help us.



Current setup




At the moment, we run one development server bbtsrv02 which is a Windows server, running XAMPP. We do all of our developments on this server and it leads to a lot of noise and mess when we're hacking things quickly.



Once the changes have been made locally, we upload these files to our external server (hosted by someone else) via FTP.





It's far from practical, there can be 3/5 developers at one time working on the site as a whole. It causes conflicts and... it's not nice.



The current idea




The idea is to use bbtsrv02 as a "mirror" server. It'll contain all of the most up to date and live code. bbtsrv03 (the new server) will be our development server. We'll have the master branch which will also contain the live code, and each developer will branch their own version for each change.



But... Further thinking has led me to come to the conclusion, that we'll need to setup some virtual hosts, for each developer so they can close the master repo and work from there?



I don't have much experience in this area, but my current plan is to partition the main HDD and give us each enough space to develop on.



We then push our changes from our branch to the master one and then "copy" it into bbtsrv02 and upload. I'm hoping of course, I can make some bash scripts to do that for me?


Answer



The way that we do it (YMMV) is as follows:




Each dev builds and does basic code tests on their desktop/laptop etc. They use git locally to commit changes, branch etc. When they are ready to push, they take what ever local actions the need to clean up their timeline and then they push.



The push goes to a staging server. Our staging server is a mirror of our production servers. We do load testing, code reviews, and final checks there.



Once we pass that level, we push to the production servers.


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