In the past, I always edited all my sites live; Not too worried about my 2 visitors seeing an error message.
However, the day may come when I will receive more than two visitors. What would be the best approach to testing my changes and then making all the changes to life at the same time?
Do I have to copy and paste one single file into a subfolder and edit them, and then copy them when I am done? What if I have full URLs in my code (they will break if I translate them)? Maybe I can use .htaccess hacking to get around this? What about test database data? Should I spoof all my MySQL tables and reference them?
I am using CakePHP for a specific project that I'm worried about, but I'm curious to know what people take approaches with Cake (what can have tools for this?) And without a frame.
I get a lot of recommendations for SVN, which sounds great, but unfortunately my host does not support it: \
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