Apprenez Drupal en vidéo et en français. Create a Test Site. Production site: The live website where all your web visitors go.Test site: A copy of your live site, at a different URL, where you can make experimental changes without affecting your live site Drupal and its modules are in pretty constant development.
So things are changing pretty fast and sometimes not completely documented. In practice, that means making a change or adding/removing a module on your prod site can have rather surprising results - surprises you'd rather your visitors didn't have to live with. Development - staging - Production - deployment strategies. Dear all, I thought it would be very helpful if I would bring it up here.
Our situation is that we are moving a large, multi-user knowledge management Portal into private beta. While we wish to have a "live" version of the site, with content creation, file upload , image upload and addition etc, we wish to maintain active development on several aspects of functionality. In general, developing functionality, modules, etc, will require modification of the attached database, creation of nodes, views , content types etc on the "Development" version of the site.At the same time that users are adding nodes, content, etc to the "Production" live version of the site.