Whats the best way to deploy a PHP (PDT) Eclipse Project to Apache? (on Ubuntu)

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What's the best way to deploy a PHP PDT Eclipse Project on Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu?

I already tried to find an Apache Eclipse server adapter but got no luck. Do you know any?

If not, what's the best way to deploy a PHP Project to Apache? Shell script? Ant script? Other solution?

I could put the project folder inside the Apache's www folder but I would prefer to have the project files on a cloned git repository outside of Apache.

I'm using Eclipse Helios SR1, PDT 2.2.1 and Apache 2.2.16.

Thanks in advance.

It's stil a very small dev team, 2 people. I was thinking more about a simple way to copy/deploy the project files (even from dev branch) to a local Apache server for the sake of quick test and debug. When (and if) the team grows we will consider a more robust deployment workflow. — pedrosanta
– pedrosanta, Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 15:43
Pedro, on a very small project I worked on they setup the dev box as the SVN server of record. Development was local (user's machine) then checkin to the branch on dev. It was tested in the branch, merged locally to trunk (also stored on dev) then from the staging and production machines, the code was simply checked out to go live (SVN CO) It may not be 100% correct, but for the small team it worked great. And NO scp or ftp connections required, ever. You may not be an SVN fan, but the plugin for Eclipse is SO easy to use...just right mouse click and go. — bpeterson76
– bpeterson76, Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 17:51

Rim · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-02 21:18:35Z

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I came across this page looking for a Windows solution and found this little workaround in the meantime that might prove useful to someone:

Select Run > External tools > External tools configuration
Add a new configuration, name it Deploy or something
Set the location field to C:\Windows\System32\xcopy.exe
Set the argument field to ${workspace_loc}${project_path}\*.php c:\inetpub\wwwroot\${project_name} /s /y
Create the directory c:\inetpub\wwwroot\${project_name} manually so xcopy doesn't get confused

This will copy all your PHP files over to your webserver content directory in a subfolder with the same name as your project. The nice part is that you can run this deployment shortcut from the Run Tool button, right next to your Debug and Run buttons.

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Harmon Wood · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-04 15:05:38Z

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symbolic links!

ln -s /home/pedrosanta/Workspace/myapplication /var/www/myapplication/htdocs

setup your apache virtual hosts accordingly.

Or you could just set your virtual host's document root to your remote location.

DocumentRoot /home/pedrosanta/Workspace/myapplication

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Harmon Wood Over a year ago

ouch, lolz. No, but seriously don't use your development checkout for a production release! Instead check it out somewhere else. get clone followed by a rm -r .git then do one of the above on the new production directory.

Harmon Wood Over a year ago

also if you still want the ability to do updated on the repo. don't do the rm but instead block access to the .git in apache config.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:07:37Z

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I found this question here on SO with a lot of useful answers: Does anybody have a development/staging/deploying workflow with php/mysql?

I hope it helps!

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answered Nov 4, 2010 at 15:03

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bpeterson76 · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-04 15:09:26Z

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Save to local, SVN (or other version control via Eclipse) to branch, branch to trunk, trunk to test, test to live. I can't say enough about how important version control and testing is in any sized environment.....even if it IS a colossal pain.

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aredridel · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-06 19:27:25Z

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http://andrei.gmxhome.de/filesync + http://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/ is remarkably good.

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Supun Sameera · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-14 11:57:02Z

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I use Apache with eclipe by configuring Apache path to the workspace folder,

in httpd.conf (d:/workspace/php/ is my project location)

Alias /php/ d:/workspace/php/

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all

restart Apache and

http://localhost/php/somefolder/somefile.php

Cheers

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