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Working with environments - tobias-stern - 11-07-2020
Hi all
I've read https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/installation/running.html and https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/environments.html but I still need help wrapping my head around how to work with environments. Sorry, but I'm fairly new to php and codeigniter.
So my setup is CI4 with a local development server (localhost/mysite) and a remote production server (mysite.com). I push my local changes to github where the files are copied & pasted to the webserver automatically.
How should I setup the environments? Do I need multiple .env files, one for local and one for production? Should I .gitignore the .env and keep two seperate configurations local and on the production server? Do I have to configure something on the production webserver?
And furthermore, does it matter what baseURL is defined in App.php if I overwrite it in the .env-file anyway?
Any help is much apreaciated
Regards
Tobi
RE: Working with environments - tobias-stern - 11-08-2020
I just found this part of the documentation https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/configuration.html where it's advised to .gitignore the .enf file. This is the advice I was looking for.
So I'll configure my setup as follows:
- In App.php set baseURL to the production url (mysite.com)
- leave the default .env file on the production server without any configuration, CI assumes produciton environment anyway
- gitignore my local .env file
- change the baseURL in my local .env to (localhost/mysite) + any other configuration
Any comments?
Tobias