feature request: staging/development site

For several clients, I maintain a development or staging version of their site,
usually in a password-protected subdirectory or subdomain (ie,
dev.domain.com). Here is where I implement the changes they request, and they
can view, comment and approve before the changes actually go live. The
difficulty is that I need to remember all the files that I've changed or
updated to make the change, and then copy and paste them into the live
directories to upload them again. This messes up my check-in check-out
settings, not to mention is a pain in the butt and difficult to maintain.
Ideally, and it doesn't seem like it would be too hard for DW to do this, I
could set a site so that all changes I made were automatically made to the
staging site, and at a command from me the changes would roll-over to the live
site. Any chance of this happening?

I just make copies of the settings and then have different remote servers
all using the same site folder. I dont know you mm cannot make a button in
the remote for remote local and remote server so you dont have to keep
changing the login info and directory. I have site local siteserver and
sitetest as long as you use the same site folder on you stystem you just
change which settings you open and this way they are always the same.
michael

"deolmstead" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

For several clients, I maintain a development or staging version of their
site,
usually in a password-protected subdirectory or subdomain (ie,
dev.domain.com). Here is where I implement the changes they request, and
they
can view, comment and approve before the changes actually go live. The
difficulty is that I need to remember all the files that I've changed or
updated to make the change, and then copy and paste them into the live
directories to upload them again. This messes up my check-in check-out
settings, not to mention is a pain in the butt and difficult to maintain.
Ideally, and it doesn't seem like it would be too hard for DW to do this,
I
could set a site so that all changes I made were automatically made to the
staging site, and at a command from me the changes would roll-over to the
live
site. Any chance of this happening?

Sorry sent that without spell check.. should have been

I just make copies of the settings and then have different remote servers
all using the same site folder. I dont know why MacroMedia cannot make a
option in
the remote for remote local and remote server so you dont have to keep
changing the login info and directory. I have site local site server and
site test as long as you use the same site folder on you system you just
change which settings you open and this way they are always the same.
Michael



I dont know why Macromedia
"Michael" <michaelinitaly (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

I just make copies of the settings and then have different remote servers
all using the same site folder. I dont know you mm cannot make a button in
the remote for remote local and remote server so you dont have to keep
changing the login info and directory. I have site local siteserver and
sitetest as long as you use the same site folder on you stystem you just
change which settings you open and this way they are always the same.
michael

"deolmstead" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote in message
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For several clients, I maintain a development or staging version of their
site,
usually in a password-protected subdirectory or subdomain (ie,
dev.domain.com). Here is where I implement the changes they request, and
they
can view, comment and approve before the changes actually go live. The
difficulty is that I need to remember all the files that I've changed or
updated to make the change, and then copy and paste them into the live
directories to upload them again. This messes up my check-in check-out
settings, not to mention is a pain in the butt and difficult to maintain.
Ideally, and it doesn't seem like it would be too hard for DW to do this,
I
could set a site so that all changes I made were automatically made to
the
staging site, and at a command from me the changes would roll-over to the
live
site. Any chance of this happening?