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Strip down ubuntu server for performance on virtual machine

We use a ubuntu virtual machine for a local development setup which provides a consistent development environment for all developers and lets them use an OS/IDE of their choice for other work. The ...
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Shared SVN-powered web development with branching on Apache

We're a web development shop and have our sites checked out from SVN on a single development server via samba, like this: share/ site1/ trunk/ site2/ trunk/ branches/ ...
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Should I setup a linux virtual box or develop on Windows and deploy to Linux? [closed]

I am running a Windows 7 machine for development at the moment. Is it best practice to develop on a virtual Linux machine locally so that your development environment is closest to your production ...
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What server setup for a small web development company? [closed]

I co-own a company with a friend of mine and we have decided to buy a new server to support our business (our current server is an Asus EEE Box, working great but too limited :) ). I should mention ...
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Different 'development' environments for different developers

We have three environments: development, staging, and production. In our configuration variables for development, we set our database to connect to 127.0.0.1 with a set username or password. ...
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Best way to install and configure both a development and production server? [closed]

Here's the situation I have... I am working on 3 small websites (one is a photography showcasing site for a family member, one is a blog, and one is a custom CMS I am working on to gain experience in ...
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What is required for developers to run their own VM server in an enterprise environment

This scenario was also posted on SO, with different questions for different audiences - and I'm very glad I did as I've received some very good responses. We are attempting to implement a development ...
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How to better simulate remote development locally with virtual hosts?

When developing WordPress websites, for instance, such a script saves a few values on the database with detected paths/addresses. To avoid issues when uploading the production version to the server ...
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Have VM using bridged networking, but on host machine without network

I'm configuring a LAMP development environment inside a VM and I'm no Linux/networking champ but I'm trying. I've installed Centos (5.6) in a VM (VirtualBox) on my local machine. I've set networking ...
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Apache2 dynamic documentroot depending on URL

I have looked at setting up an Apache server. I want to run our site example.com on the server, as well as testing test.example.com. This I can setup by having two almost identical VirtualHost in ...
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setting up a windows a development server

At my last company we had a development server where the developers could create websites/tools, upload to the development server and when setting up the host header in IIS would use ...
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MySQL Replication, Master vs Slave commits

I have a production webserver with a MySQL database setup as Master. I have a dev server with MySQL setup as Slave, with the data successfully being replicated from the Master. What happens when a ...
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When is it appropriate for a server to handle multiple functions and when should servers be dedicated to a single task?

I have one fairly powerful server running VMware ESXi to allow for multiple virtual machines to handle different purposes. Currently I have 7 set up: PHP Development PHP Staging RoR Development RoR ...
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How to SetEnv with SVN revision number in Apache conf?

I'm setting up development environment of Apache. I prefer to set a environment variable to be local checked out SVN revision number. The environment variable value is then read in PHP code and put ...
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Development ASP.NET Server

We have an extra Windows 2003 Server that I am hoping can be used to speed up development process on a web site we're producing. We are trying to reduce lag time from our really slow ASP.Net local ...
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Developing on Windows Server 2008 vs Developing on Windows 7

I mostly develop .net web applications and sometimes client apps on wpf. Now I use Windows 7 as a development environment on my laptop. I am thinking of installing Windows Server 2008 R2 to my other ...
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Setting up dev environments for different users on the same server

I am trying to set up a dev server that multiple developers will be sharing. I am rusty with linux server configs, but I remember a while back I set up a dev server in a way where each developer would ...
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New boxes for the Dev team: Buy Powerful PC's or 15k Worth of VM Infrastructure? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: 15 to 20 developers on VM Looking to upgrade dev boxes for my dev team. I have spoken with my CTO and he's potentially giving me the option go to either buy powerful ...
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Migrating production CentOS server to a VirtualBox VM?

I want to migrate a production server to a VM for development purposes, and exactly duplicate the production environment as closely as possible. The production server is running CentOS with a single ...
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Minimizing SQL transaction log file size on developer box running simple recovery model

We have alot of SQL servers on development environment where we never take backup of the databases (TFS for code is enough). The (SharePoint) databases are all set to simple recovery model, but the ...
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should I use a subdomain on live server for my development environment?

What are the pros/ cons of setting up a subdomain to use as a dev environment on the same server as a live webserver? the pros for me are it's already set up - dev.mysite.com, I dont need to worry ...
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Migrating user (developer) profile from XP to NT6 (Vista,7) ~ What do I need to be mindful of?

If it's a dupe, lemme know and redirect me and I'm on my way guys. I'm a dev on Visual Studio, I have 2005, 2008 and 2010 installed atm, along with VB6, and SqlServer Dev 2005, 2008 installed as ...
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Looking for Team Development type Software like SVN

I am in need of a software that is PHP-Based, or similar that can be installed on my server that offer SVN Perks. It should be somewhat similar to an SVN, however, since the server doesn't support ...
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How to take snapshot of non virtual server and restore it in VM?

Is is possible to take a snapshot of a non virtual server (Ubuntu) and restore it in a virtual machine? I'm asking because I'd like to have an exact copy of my production server to use as a dev ...
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Scoping a home dev server [closed]

I’m looking to build a multi-purpose home development server. In this post, I’m looking to outline what I want from such a system, and the ‘why’s of it, to some limited extent, and finally, some ...
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Why does local host say “It Works”?

I have configured all my websites in the "Sites" folder to be tested in my browser. When I type a web address for example http://test.dev, I get "It Works". Why?
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SQL cluster instance names for large project

We're setting up two clusters. One dev and one prod. The Production will host two SQL instances - a OLTP and a DW. The development will host 4 OLTP non-production environments and at least one DW ...
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What is the best way to copy production Active Directory back to pre-production / staging?

I'm setting up a preproduction environment as a copy of production. The first time this was done, a very long time ago, when staging/preprod environment was created, we spun up an AD virtual machine, ...
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I have 8 server-grade machines used for development. Should I create a VPS cloud?

My idea is that each user can spawn a VM, then use dist-cc to do compile using other VMs in the cloud. Is such practice common in development environment? Would performance be much worse than just ...
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Development Environment SMTP Server - Rewrite email recipient address

I am looking for a way to setup an SMTP server in our development environment that will run on the local dev server and rewrite the recipient email address to our debug address, without effecting the ...
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Using Tomcat for development, qa and production deployments on the same box?

I'm working on a couple small/medium projects, but I do like tinkering with tools and I have to admit I do love overcomplicating things. The projects that I am working on are Java web applications ...
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How Tune the best PostgreSQL for developers not for production?

Developing software on a laptop or a desk computer, what would the best configuration for make sure developers has a fast connections and response. For example a laptop with: 2 cores, 2GB of ram and ...
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How to install windows server 2008 r2 Hyper-V on Windows 7, through virtual machine?

I have one computer that running windows 7 and want to have a Dev Environment running on this machine. I tried to install Windows Server 2008 r2 with Hyper-V role on a VirtualBox virtual machine, but ...
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How do I move my production servers into a devlopment VM?

I have about 3 servers that are probably almost 10 years old, all using code what one might consider worst-practices for programming's sake. I'm terrified of making changes to the thing (production ...
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Dev Machine for SharePoint 2010 how much RAM do you need?

I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit as host, in host I'll run vitals such as Word, Outlook, browsers (often multi tabs), messengers (both skype + msn), media player. I'll also be running locally IIS ...
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How many cores should I configure in VMWare 2.x VM for Win7 32-bit Guest?

I have a 64-bit non VT host with 4 cores and 6Gb of RAM. How many cores should I allocate to the VM?
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How to manage changes to set of cloned Virtual Machines?

I am trying to set up a workable model for development. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for Virtual machine software and what process to follow to enable the following: Developers grab ...
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non-MS free alternatives to MS AD features installable on MS Windows (for development) [reopened] [closed]

I reopen the question Open source alternatives to MS AD features (but) installable on MS Windows which was closed "as subjective and argumentative" whatever can it mean. There wasn't a single ...
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how to better set up machine for development both in workgroup and Windows domain? [closed]

I am developer. Initially, at my client(employer) premises I had been given the company's desktop computer with Windows XP Pro SP3 joined to corporate Windows Active Directory domain (AD). This is ...
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Windows LocalSystem vs. System

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170/the-difference-between-the-local-system-account-and-the-network-service-accou tells: Local System : Completely trusted account, moreso than the ...
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Low Spec PC as personal Web Development Server?

I am getting a low spec PC for $60. Pentium 4 Processor, 1.8GHZ, 512M RAM, 20g Hard Drive, Is this good enough to install Ubuntu Server edition and install at least the following and have this ...
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New Dev Machine Setup advice needed (OS’s and virtualization)

I am buying a new AMD 6 core machine and would use it as development server machine. I want to achieve 2 things: have multiple Virtual machines on it to run various Operating systems (something like ...
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File change on a LAMP development server not taken into account

I set up a small LAMP virtual machine for PHP development. It works fine, excepted that when an image which has already been served is modified on disk, then requested again, the "old" image is still ...
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Provisioning development environment on the Cloud

I'm planning a development environment on the cloud. My target platform is Microsoft .Net and preferred cloud id Amazon AWS (although I'm open for suggestions). I'm planning to purchase a High-Memory ...
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Setting Up Development Environment for Distributed Team

I need to set up a development environment for a small distributed team of under 5 programmers to build a site using Drupal. Development is done by each programmer on his/her own machine. Ideally, ...
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windows 7 group policies for .net developers

I am trying to get to a comprehensive list of policy settings for developers using Visual Studio 2008 (2010 specific permissions are helpful too) to do .Net development on everything from a Command ...
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How to set up multi users on dev server with git and github

I'm working on lamp application. We have 2 servers (Debian) Live and Dev. I constantly work on dev main to add new features and fix bugs. When happy all works well I scp the relevant code to the ...
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What's needed in a complete ASP.NET environment?

We have a ASP3.0 application with a few ASP.NET (2.0) dittys mixed in. (Our longtime goal is to migrate everything to ASP.NET but that's not important for this issue) Our current test/deploy workflow ...
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Creating a development environment from a shared hosting production environment (LAMP)

The production server is shared, I don't have access to php.ini and httpd.conf and most PHP settings cannot be set or overrided using ini_set PHP function. So I would like to create a local ...
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Setting up web development envirnoment with a VM (ssh + browser testing)

I am running VMware Fusion on my Mac (10.6) with an Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit) VM for my development environment. How would I setup SSH to be able to SSH into the Ubuntu VM from the Mac? Also, when I am ...

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