为 OpenCart 创建开发环境

Question

I am creating an e-commerce website using OpenCart and hostgator for hosting. I want to create a development environment with OpenCart installed on it so that I can view changes and edits without making them live. I also want an easy way to be able to save changes and push them to the live website.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Answer 1

If you are the only developer and tester of the site, then simply install WAMP (Windows) , MAMP (MacOS) , or XAMPP on your development machine. You will then be able to install OpenCart, edit any files, and perform testing using a browser and going to http://localhost/

If there are a number of developers, or you need the development environment to be accessible to other people in other locations, simply setup a subdomain under your existing domain (like "dev.server.com" where the production site is "server.com") and install it there. (If you go this route, I would suggest researching HTACCESS rules to limit access to the development environment to yourself and other authorised people, rather than making it completely public.)