By maigrey on

We are looking at open source solutions for website management, mainly to stop spending so much money on software licenses. Since my superior would not want website edits to appear on the live site without being able to see each "page" first, and we often work for months on new templates (redesign the site); is there a way to clone or mirror the live site in such a way for us to have a testing environment, from which weekly edits could be easily updated?

We are currently using Dreamweaver with all its collaborative features. If Drupal would not work, can anyone suggest open source alternatives that might be more appropriate?

Thanks!

Melanie

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WorldFallz commented

I've not had a chance to check it out yet, but the http://drupal.org/project/autopilot module is supposed to address exactly this need.

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juan_g commented

For testing on a local PC or Mac, people often use easy WAMP or MAMP packages such as the open source XAMPP (which includes Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl), etc.

For a more advanced solution, see IBM's tutorial on Drupal: Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site.