Small enhancements: local, remote and version

New Member Joined: Dec 03, 2004 Posts: 17

Hi Nukers.

Due to the fact that I have local and remote sites to maintain, it's always a bit tricky to cope with different upgrading work on both sites. So I decided to simply copy all files on both sites where means or infos should be present to get the knowledge if local or remote. I therefore introduced the following changes on my sites (7.5, 2.8, 2.1.3) this morning:

a) Set a file 'local.php' only on local site in 'root/includes' e.g. with 'touch local.php'

b) Made two config-blocks in 'root/config.php' for distinguishing local/remote matters as follows:

Quote:

if ($forum_admin == 1) {
if (file_exists("../../../includes/local.php")) $blah_local = 1;
} else {
if (file_exists("./includes/local.php")) $blah_local = 1;
}

if($blah_local) {

...here are local config settings

} else {

...here are remote config settings

}

c) In 'root/includes/sentinel.php' I made the following changes:

old:

Quote:

if($remote=="none") { die("Invalid IP used"); }

new:

Quote:

if (!$blah_local) {
if($remote=="none") { die("Invalid IP used"); }
}

d) Finally I get the version number of the new NukeSentinel upgrade files no longer from the DB and placed it instead in 'root/language/sentinel/lang-english.php' with a new variable as follows:

Quote:

define ("_AB_VERSION","2.1.3");

All calls to the version numbers within the code have been replaced accordingly.

With these changes I only have to copy the new files in case of an upgrade on my local or remote sites without touching the DBs an leaving thme as they are now - have not longer to think 'What to change differently on both sites?'.

Next step is to write a script for simply copying all the new stuff from the download directory to the local and remote machines.

So, how is it?

Greetings.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Quote:

With these changes I only have to copy the new files in case of an upgrade on my local or remote sites without touching the DBs an leaving thme as they are now - have not longer to think 'What to change differently on both sites?'.

I'm following everything except this statement. DB changes have to be made regardless. So how does this keep you from doing the DB changes?

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:32 am

Oops, you are fully right: I missed to run the 'nsnst.php' script for updating the DBs on both sites... Wink

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 8:36 am

I thought you had found a magical script that worked by osmosis ROTFL

Thanks again!