I can't wrap my head around how I'm supposed to use ColdFusion Builder 3 (akin to Eclipse).
Up until this point, I've been using Dreamweaver 5, which is getting 'long-in-the-tooth', and I wanted to give CF Builder a try.
So, in Dreamweaver, it's pretty simple: you setup connections to servers using credentials... There's a Local path, which is the local copy of your code, and the webroot of the Server which is the 'live' copy of your code. Basically, you make a change to the local copy, and PUT the change to the Server. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, right?
But, how does this translate to ColdFusion Builder 3?
Just to give you an idea of our infrastructure.... we have Development and Production. Each of these boxes has multiple web instances, example: Accounting, Human Resources, IT. Each of those web instances could have multiple applications.... I'm only considered about my instance, IT, on both the Production and Development servers.
Is a workspace supposed to represent an instance on a web server?
In CFBuilder, should I configure 1 server per web app?
Is a project supposed to represent a web app?
Am I supposed to use drive mappings to the inetpub wwwroot for access to web applications? Is it even considered kosher to have a drive mapping to the web root? \server\c$\inetpub\wwwroot
Where do I keep my local copy of my code?
How do I move items from Development to Production?
My main confusion is with workspaces, projects, and servers... My intent is to debug and 'view page in browser' from CFBuilder.... However, when you setup a server, under Server Mapping and URL Prefix, you're supposed to indicate the Local and Remote paths, plus this is not directly related to the physical location of the project.... and as I've mentioned, there's multiple instances, multiple applications, and the development box is not my local machine, it's a remote server...
I would really like to know how others have made this work for them.
I really don't mind this question even though it's not directly code related because I've been using ColdFusion Builder (CFB) for years and there just isn't enough good documentation out there. I now enjoy a great experience with CFB thanks to blog posts and sharing experiences with other devs :)
My setup: CFB3 running on Windows 8.1, dev server running on a Virtual Machine so it is treated as "remote server" just like yours. I also update remote staging and production servers (although not directly from CFB).
First, let's set some reasonable expectations: Dreamweaver and CFB are very different in that CFB focuses on programming and Dreamweaver on design. CFB is built on eclipse and therefore has the advantage of benefiting from most eclipse plugins.
Your question is specifically about how to set up your projects in CFB using 2 remote servers (dev and prod). It's different for everyone but I'll share my setup with you. (sidenote: My projects are also stored in Git repositories - 1 repo for every app)
Starting from the top: A workspace in CFB deals with your whole eclipse application, not just your projects. The most important things kept in this directory are snippets and plugins. You do NOT need to keep your project files in here. This is merely the main directory where all of your settings are kept. You are not required to have more than 1 workspace (I only have one). Why would you need more than one? You may be multifaceted programmer who needs to keep separate workspaces using separate tools (like different plugins, snippets, window layouts...)
To answer your next question (1 server per web app), all you need to to is configure your dev servers in the "CF Servers" tab. You need to add 1 server per web instance for every instance that you'd like to test on. Hopefully, your dev server has RDS enabled (very helpful for remote database and file viewing, just like in Dreamweaver). During configuration, don't worry about Mappings or Virtual Host Settings (I have another recommendation later). Once configured, you'll be able to assign that server to a project.
Drive mappings: I would never recommend mapping to the webroot of a shared dev server. If you were to use that drive map as your local directory, your changes will be made directly to the development server. What you want to do is create a new project by right clicking in the Navigator area and select Import > Other > FTP. Follow the steps, choose anywhere on your local drive to store the files, then choose "New project" at the end (this will add the .project file necessary for CFB to control the project).
Once the project is created, right click on it, select ColdFusion Project and choose the CFML Dictionary version you'll be using (CF11, 10, 9...). Then, select ColdFusion Server Settings and choose the dev server. This is necessary for testing.
What you now have is a local directory with your app and eclipse knows about the remote server. In order to synchronize, you right click on the project, go to Team and synchronize from there. For detailed information about synchronization over FTP, see the help section "Guide to WebDAV and FTP".
Moving to production is not as simple as it was in Dreamweaver. The FTP configuration information only allows for 1 connection (thus giving you a list of files synchronized between your project and the dev server). Therefore, you'll need a third party FTP client to synchronize between your local project and your prod server.
As promised, my last entry will be able the "debugging" which is why I said to skip the mappings and virtual host settings in CF Server config. I really, really recommend using a third party paid plugin called FusionDebug (http://www.fusion-debug.com/). This plugin facilitates the setup and allows you to step-into all of your code (which doesn't work so well in native CFB). There's a 30 day trial and I recommend you try before your buy (or license for a year in this case!)
I have a VPS, Cent OS 6.4 64bit
I want to create a panel (like cPanel) and I want to make it accessible by opening a port (serverip:2082 for example). I have created php files of my own panel but i don't know anything about linux services.
What type of code must I make and where can I put it?
Thank you in advance!
no offense, but if you really don't know about linux service you are 99% away from creating your own panel. You first need to understnad that Cpanel not only modify system files to allow hosting and managing database, but it also do all these without playing with system security.
But to start you need a web server that will host your Cpanel. I prefer it to be different from your webserver that host your website, reason? What if your default apache is inaccessible or crash, your panel will crash with it. Then you need to learn Mysql, or database you want to manage through panel, DNS binding, Name servers, regular expression to manage text files of configuration etc.
I know all these because I already built a Cpanel like application, and know it is not easy job especially with this level of question you asked.
I'm looking into using Eclipse as a dev environment for PHP projects, but it's pretty huge and I'm not sure where to look for answers. I want to be able to work on remote files from within the client - i.e., rather than using an FTP client to download copies from our remote development server, working on them locally, and then having to upload them to test, I want to be able to work directly on the remote files. I know many development environments allow this - my colleagues who work on Macs use Coda, which allows them to define sites and access all files via an explorer tree. I'm currently running Bluefish on Ubuntu, and it also allows this.
I've downloaded and installed Helios, but can't seem to find an obvious menu entry for handling remote files. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Edited to add: we don't use version control at this point, so I'm not looking for any kind of Subversion tie-in.
The RSE (Remote System Explorer) may be what you're looking for. It's an implementation of the Eclipse File System framework which allows resources in your workspace to be backed in reality by remote resources.
Since you are working on Ubuntu, you can have a look over here
Perhaps this will be of some help
http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-sftp/
I've never used it myself but it seems to do what you're looking for syncing and editing files over SFTP.
I usually develop using remote Eclipse. Use ssh -Y user#server to login and try executing eclipse on that shell, it should open on your computer if you have X properly configured.
Of course, this Eclipse instance will have access to the remote server files.
This is more general than Eclipse: http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net. I usually use the SSH/SFTP version (safer): http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
Both are based on FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/)
Install eclipse plugin Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime.
See video at How to Edit codes and files remotely with Eclipse.
Also, check out how to configure the remote connection: Using Remote Connections.
At my work I currently have my development environment inside a Virtual Machine. When I need to do work from home I copy my VM and any databases I need onto a laptop drive sized external USB drive. After about 10 minutes of copying I put the drive in my pocket and head home, copy back the VM and databases onto my personal computer and I'm ready to work. I follow the same steps to take the work back with me.
So if I count the total amount of time I spend waiting around for files to finish copying in order for me to take work home and bring it back again, it comes to around 40 minutes! I do have a VPN connection to my work from home (providing the internet is up at both sites) and a decent internet speed (8mbits down/?up) but I find Remote Desktoping into my work machine laggy enough for me to want to work on my VM directly.
So in looking at what other options I have or how I could improve my existing option I'm interested in what strategy you use or recommend to do work at home and keeping your code/environment in sync.
EDIT: I'd prefer an option where I don't have to commit my changes into version control before I leave work - as I like to make meaningful descriptive comments in my commits, committing would take longer than just copying my VM onto a portable drive! lol Also I'd prefer a solution where my dev environment stays in sync too. Having said that I'm still very interested in your own solutions even if they don't exactly solve my problem as best as I'd like. :)
A Distributed / Decentralized Version Control System solution will suit your needs, Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, darcs... you have plenty alternatives.
Use a version control software like SVN, SourceOffSite, etc. You just have to check-in all your changes and get the latest changes when you want to sync.
Or you can use Windows Live Sync -> https://sync.live.com/foldersharetolivesync.aspx
Hasn't anyone recommended rsync? Use an rsync client to send the diff between files. You can apply these diffs thus bringing your file up-to-date. For the smallest file transfer it's probably the best idea.
I simply use an external portable notebook drive and do all my work on that. All my PCs have it set to the same drive letter. So no copying anything .. I've not attempted to run VMs this way, however, but I don't see any reason it shouldn't simply work.
i use dropbox.
We use Citrix and then I do a remote desktop connection to my PC at work. It is not the fastest solution in the world, but it does eliminate the problem of keeping two or more workstations up-to-date.
Here is a solution I use.
Set up a VPN between the office network and the laptop.
Install the VisualSVN Server
Load all projects in the SCC.
When at the office I check out a project, work on it and then check it in. When at home or around the world I connect to the office via VPN, check out my project, do my thing then check it in. Via the VPN connection I can also RDP to my dev boxes and or servers.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
I either connect remotely to the office SVN, or VPN in and remote desktop my dev or desktop machine and carry on working. It's very rare I sync any files, but when I do it's usually with DropBox (although you can't really do that with large files).
Write program, that will syncronize all your data through internet, and then shutwodn your computer, so at the end of the day you launch it, and go home, and when you come home all data is already there
We work with a distributed team, so it is vital everyone has easy and secure code repository access. For this, we use SVN over ssl/https. It works great, reliably and secure.
Depending on the VM software you are using why don't you set up 2 different VM disks, keep your user profile/dev files on one disk and the OS and other programs that change rarely on the other.
This way you can probably get away with only having to copy the larger disk image when you've installed something new and end up only copying a single virtual disk containing your work.
Just setup a SVN server at home, forward your router port and get on with your life. rsync is also a good, fast solution. Just remember to use it over SSH.
I had a similar problem. But fortunately we had a source control server (TFS) configured so I use to work only from the local Virtual Machines stored on my external drive and than check in the required files to the TFS as an when required.
you haven't specified the OS and virtualization system, but if you're working VM images that can be mounted, e.g. XEN on linux, then you could mount the image and sync it via rsync.
i connecting to the office net work and download the lates version form svn
use the Dev mysql server
so i am just like anther computer in the office network
I imagine that most of the time spent copying involves the database. Is that right? If so, can you not simply connect to your work DB from home using your VPN connection?
You would still copy your source files (or use a source code control system as others have suggested), but this would only take a fraction of the time.
If all you need is a virtual machine from your work computer, then you could mount a remote catalog (using nfs or smb) where is your virtual machine files store and run that virtual machine from there. This should be faster than using remote desktop.
I also use DropBox, and that is key because it is important to keep it simple.
It is generally better if you can have some type of remote desktop ability, because this will allow you to use a standard workstation configuration, and it will allow for consistent connection to network resources (database server, business servers like workflow, etc).
Working offline, in my opinion, is ok for certain tasks, but overall there are obstacles for systems which connect to other resources (unless you plan to move those resources to your home box).
It was a problem for me too. So, the company bought me a laptop, and I do my work on it, at home or anywhere else.
I have a set up where a folder on one machine is synced to a folder on another machine. any changes to the contents on one machine is also made on the other machine within a minute.
So you could sync the top level folder of your work files, and have then sync to your home machine. What I like about this is that syncing is completely transparent. As far as the user experience goes, I'm simply using the file system. No external app to interact with.
I use Live Sync Live Sync from Microsoft to this. You'll need to create a Windows Live ID to use this system. It works for windows and macs.
Dropbox and Microsoft's Live Sync are good options that have already been mentioned. My personal favorite is Live Mesh, also from Microsoft. The one great feature that puts it above the other two, in my mind, is the ability to specify which folders get synched on which computers, and where the folders are located. So, for example, I synch my Visual Studio 2005/Projects folder between my work machine and my dev box at home, and I synch Visual Studio 2008/Projects between my side gig VM and my home dev box.
i have a macbook with all my dev software on it; when i go to work, i start it in target firewire mode and plug it into my work macpro with the fast processor, lan connection, big monitor, etc. this way i never have to leave my user folder but i have access to all the software and hardware available at work.
Why don't you just use version control? A DVCS?
Find here a tutorial on DVCS for Windows users (very simple)
http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/03/distributed-development-for-windows.html
Some ideas:
Use network storage (with SSD cache if speed is a concern), either for your code or to host your VM.
Separate data and OS into two virtual disks in your VM.
Google drive, Onedrive, Dropbox etc.
If you use Visual Studio (Code), try the Live Share extension.
Dockerize your environment. Alternatively, I keep a bash script for all the setup I did, so I could almost one-click reinstall my dev environment anywhere.
Use a second version control, covering your whole work directory. Commit and push everything before switching environments, then pull and hard reset your commit in another machine.