Comments on: Magento Development and Deployment: Setting up a Modman based Magento project on Magento 1.5

By: magento developer

magento developer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:28:34 +0000

Thank you for new trick specially /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin/php -f install.php part of installation.

By: isecondthisquestion

isecondthisquestion — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:13:49 +0000

I’m new to SVN and I second this question:

“1) How do you manage changes to the development database and production db? Especially, e.g., if you make configuration changes in development, how do you track all those changes to push to production?”

By: magento development company

magento development company — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:28:49 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial! It is nice little local workflow set up with Magento 1.5.1.0 thanks to this and your MAMP articles.

By: amy

amy — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:43:29 +0000

what about on windoze 7 ?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:09:04 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Steve, good tip about Developer Mode, that’s new in 1.5.1.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:26:09 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial! Got a nice little local workflow set up with Magento 1.5.1.0 thanks to this and your MAMP articles.

If you’re on 1.5.1.0, be sure to enable Magento developer mode by adding this to your .htaccess:
#Magento Developer Mode SetEnv MAGE_IS_DEVELOPER_MODE "true"
and then you don’t need the code tweak.

I also want to point out because it wasn’t clear to a moron like me that modman also allows you to symlink files, not just folders. Which is what you’ll want to do with your app/etc/modules xml file so that you don’t overwrite the ones already there.

Cheers!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:23:52 +0000

Hi, so good to hear from someone following the steps!

That initial checkout can be done anywhere (I did note that actually!) because it’s really just setting up the skeleton repository and checking it in, you can delete it afterwards if you want. The real svn co happens via the modman script in the next set of commands.

Let me know how you get on.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:50:19 +0000

Question – when you do your initial ‘svn co’ in Step 3, should that be in the ~/bin directory (where Step 2 left off) or in the localhost root directory or in the Magento root directory?

Thanks!

By: Joe Fletcher

Joe Fletcher — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:38:42 +0000

Brilliant! 2 questions stand out for me:
1) How do you manage changes to the development database and production db? Especially, e.g., if you make configuration changes in development, how do you track all those changes to push to production?

2) Magento upgrades. You note in another post that all of this will hopefully result in a less painful upgrade process. What’s been your experience? How do you go about upgrading to new releases?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:39:49 +0000

Sweet, I thought I saw that item in the release notes this morning, but they hadn't updated the bug so I was a little confused. Not sure I agree that it needs to be a config switch, but hey, it'll save a core override, so I'm happy.