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Asked: 2026-05-13T13:12:02+00:00

I’m developing from my Windows laptop but need to test my development on my

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I’m developing from my Windows laptop but need to test my development on my shared Linux hosting. I have thrown together the following in place of the normal $application_path = "application"; line.

$env['laptop']['ip'] = '127.0.0.1';
$env['laptop']['host'] = 'MATT-WINDOWS7';
$env['laptop']['path'] = 'private';



$env['mattpotts']['ip'] = '12.34.56.78';
$env['mattpotts']['host'] = 'my.webhost.com';
$env['mattpotts']['path'] = '../private/blah';

 $ip = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
 $host = php_uname('n');
 foreach($env as $e)
  if($e['ip'] == $ip && $e['host'] == $host)
   $application_folder = $e['path'];
 unset($env);
 if(!isset($application_folder))
  die('application folder not set');

…which works fine for setting the application path but now I’m running into trouble with the need for a database config for each environment.

I can make it work with a few simple ifs but I was wondering if there’s a best practice solution to this one.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use revision control such as Subversion. Have one configuration file deployed to your test environment and a modified version checked out in your development environment. Simply tell your client to not commit those configuration changes so they don’t make it to your testing/production environment.

    This is definitely the best practice solution 🙂

    P.S. If you don’t feel like setting up a Subversion server, there’s always hosted solutions like Beanstalk and if you’re on Windows, TortoiseSVN is a slick client.

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