* Metzler, David metzlerd@evergreen.edu [121121 15:00]:
I'm sure that there are many different ways that this is done in the drupal community as much depends on your hosting environment. Many of us do that development work on our laptops and then push them to a testing site for external use. I would certainly recommend that approach.
My preferred method is maintain an internal test site - I.E. on my local network workstation and upload changes as they are finalized.
My projects are configured so that each has a utility that maps all dependencies of files composing that project so that when I upload any one file, any dependencies are also uploaded. (sort of a "makefile" for FTP).
Is there a drupal module that would would enable something like that?
To illustrate, let's say I have an internal test site at http://localhost/timslocal and I upload tested changes (with dependencies also) to http://www.tj49.com/timsremote
Anyway, welcome to the drupal community. Good luck with the site migration.
:) Thank you