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Rapidly create, develop, & deploy WordPress across multiple environments.
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Deploy Genesis to Gandi Simple Hosting? #139

Closed evangineer closed 9 years ago

evangineer commented 9 years ago

This is a PaaS style service that offers a pre-installed LAMP stack that includes both Apache and Varnish. See this for more info: https://www.gandi.net/hosting/simple?language=php&db=mysql

I have a pre-existing WordPress site deployed on this stack. I've been looking for a Vagrant-based WordPress local development solution that can work well with this stack and Genesis-Wordpress looks like it fits the bill.

My challenge is getting my existing site into the Genesis environment and integrating the Genesis deployment with Gandi Simple Hosting.

Any ideas on how best to proceed?

evangineer commented 9 years ago

Okay, so I've modified deployment/stages/old.rb so that I can fetch my existing site's files and data. The provisioning feature won't be any use for production and I don't have a staging server currently. Might try using AWS for that, but not right now, I have deadlines.

jimmynotjim commented 9 years ago

I use Digital Ocean for my staging server. Dirt cheap and easy to set up. As for deploying to Gandi, I can't help much there, but you could always set up a Grunt ftp deploy task (if you're into Grunt).

evangineer commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the tip regarding Digital Ocean @jimmynotjim, I'll consider when I'm looking for a staging server.

I've switched away from Genesis for the current project, due to my technical rustiness and lack of familiarity with the tools used in the face of pending deadlines. I do intend to try it again though when time allows, now that I've got my existing site in a Git repo and my tech-fu is coming back to me.