Multiple Environments

[eluser]xtremer360[/eluser]


I'm trying to understand the best course of action with using multiple environments, such as development, testing, production for my application with codeigniter.

As of right now I have one folder for my application. I'm seen places that talk about in the config file doing a folder for each of the environments and placing for example a copy of the database file in each of the environment folders.

Is this the best method of handling multiple environments? The reason I'm asking is because if I work on my dev subdomain I'd still have to reupload to the main root folder all the same files. Is this the best workflow?

So basically I have two sites.

dev.siteurl.com siteurl.com

I'm trying to figure out the best option of handling this. Because I'm wondering if I'm going to just have to reupload all the files again to the main level so that it can handle the production server or is there an easier way.