Safe to develop online?

gimme5minutes

Im wondering do many people do all their development online as opposed to doing it locally on their pc/laptop? If a site is not gonna be going live for a few months is it safe enough to develop it online or is there a reasonable chance of getting hacked?

techguy

Ideally you should develop locally first. This has a number of advantages, no worries about security, you don't rely on an internet connection and it testing and saving will be faster locally.

You should try something like WAMP for a local dev solution.

With regards security, Obviously if the app isn't fully developed there could be serious falws in there. If you do decide to go down that road then you could possibly setup .htaccess and only allow certain IP addresses if you are on a static IP. You could at least put a password on the site.

minttea

What ever you do you should make sure that your development environment is the exact same as your live environment otherwise you could to run into some unforeseen issues!

EKRIUQ

Depends on the type of website

I think it’s sometimes it's better to develop it online as it as it deals with problems with different servers and permissions. Just do the proper precautions like developing it on a sub domain name or don’t have an index page in the root directory or password protect the directory you’re working on.

Downside is make sure you have everything backed up because if you write something to a server you’re deleting the previous files and speed its always quicker developing offline.

techguy

minttea wrote: »

What ever you do you should make sure that your development environment is the exact same as your live environment otherwise you could to run into some unforeseen issues!

Exactly, make sure you have the same versions of PHP and MySQL etc..I'm running two different versions of MySQL and I can tell you that it will cause serious headache..!

EDIT: Love the sig EKRIUQ !!

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Put it behind a .htaccess file during dev.