We have our web site working on our local machine. It is now time to consider deploying the web site to a development, staging, and possibly, a production server. But before we do this, there are a few little tweaks that we should look at.
In this chapter you will learn:
A better way to transfer your application than using FTP
Why a standalone application is needed
How to disable an application to allow you to perform maintenance
How to customize the default error 404 and error 500 Symfony pages
There are a number of default pages that you should skin to match your site; otherwise, they will be Symfony branded. These include the error 404 page, the error 500 page, and the maintenance and security pages.
Apart from the error 500 page and the unavailable page, the rest are all located in Symfony's default module. Therefore, to change these pages, we can follow one of these two options:
In your Symfony installation, there is a default...