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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

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eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step

Overview of this book

eZ Publish provides developers with a structure to build highly impressive applications and then quickly deploy them into a live environment. eZ Publish is complex, with a steep learning curve, but with the right direction it offers great flexibility and power. What makes eZ Publish special is not the long list of features, but what's going on behind the scenes. Created specifically for newcomers to eZ Publish, and using an example Magazine web site, this book focuses on designing, building and deploying eZ Publish to create an enterprise site quickly and easily. This tutorial takes eZ Publish's steep learning curve head-on, and walks you through the process of designing and building content-rich web sites. It makes the unrivalled power and flexibility of eZ Publish accessible to all developers. The book is organized around technical topics, which are handled in depth, with a general progression that follows the learning experience of the reader, and features a single magazine web site project from installation to completion and deployment. This hands-on guide helps the reader to understand the Content Management System to create a web 2.0-ready web site by creating new extensions or overriding the existing ones. In turn, it helps you to become confident when working in the eZ Publish administration area and offers an environment in which you can practice while working through the chapters.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
eZ Publish 4: Enterprise Web Sites Step-by-Step
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
Advance Debugging

Deploying an eZ Publish site


Software deployment involves all of the activities that make a software system available for use on a particular environment.

There are different ways to deploy software, such as using an FTP client or using SSH and rsync.

With eZ Publish, the suggested activities to deploy a website are:

  1. 1. Download eZ Deploy extension from http://projects.ez.no/ezsync.

  2. 2. Create a quality assurance test with automatic (SeleniumIDE + PHPUnit), or manual processes for all of the functionality that we developed.

  3. 3. Configure the staging siteaccess with the correct settings.

  4. 4. Deploy the database in the staging environment.

  5. 5. Deploy the code in the staging environment.

  6. 6. Check the validity of the staging server.

  7. 7. Run quality assurance tests in the staging environment.

  8. 8. Repeat steps 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on the production server.

Each of the above steps are covered in the following sections.

eZ Deploy

We have to download and install the extension called eZ Deploy. We will use this extension...