Web developers can be a mine of useful information about servers, security and planning your site. Supporting Perch has given us a fantastic insight into the ways that people work. Some of the scary things we see people doing include the following:
Developing directly on the live site
I am always amazed at the number of people I see making changes directly to files on a live website. This is a terrible way to work and not just because you are likely to break something on the live site. If you are developing directly on files on a server, it is quite possible that this is the only copy of the up-to-date files available. If there is any problem with the server, you may find your entire site is lost.
Developing in a subfolder of the live site
The other thing we see people doing is developing on the live site but doing so in a subfolder. While this means you are not directly making changes to the live site, you still have the problem of your only copy of the site existing in a subfolder on the live server.
There is a second issue with developing in a subfolder – be that on the live site or on your local server – in that by doing so all your paths from root will be incorrect when you move the site up a level. Some scripts need to know the paths from root, so you may find that the change in environment causes you a problem when you go live.
Developing locally without a web server
If you are not doing any serverside development, then you may just work locally, previewing files from the filesystem in the browser or using Dreamweaver or another editor to preview in the browser. Once again, by doing this you are not viewing your pages as part of the website, which can create problems with paths when you go live.
Developers know that you should always mirror your live environment as closely as possible, this prevents many of the problems you would otherwise have when moving a site live.
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