Hosting your MAMP LAMP websites

If you’re not 100% in the know about what you’re doing, then you’re moving too fast and will miss things. Just decide to be in command now.

We will get into some more specific situations with this later, but to start off, we just need the most basic proof that it’s a working PHP file. (and you might want to just put up an HTML page if you’re not using PHP, which will be even less to prepare for)

Installing everything, setting up the admin area (CMS), custom post types (data resources), field sets with ACF (schemas), connecting them, adding data to the database (forms and SQL behind the scenes), listing the resources on the front end, getting to the single resource pages on the front end…

(If you’ve already set up a few WP sites and themes, this will be review) (You can decide if you want to watch it)

(also note that is ultra minimal, and there’s no CSS or header and all those WP-specific ways things need to be set up / or do they?)

You’ll have to rent some space on someone else’s publically accessible computer. Just like a great cocktail party host, they’ll keep your files entertained and full of booze.

Some hosts are set up to allow for just 1 site (or many sites but it’s a lot of setup). Spinup assumes you’re going to put a bunch of sites on each host – so, they make it really easy.

You already know how to set up version control and Git repos, but here’s some specific stuff for the WP install so that you can ignore all the core WP framework files.

We’re using GitHub here, but you could use many other brands of cloud Git.

Deployment for a basic PHP site would be just like this but you’d choose “Git repo” instead of “WordPress” – or you could choose the “Don’t add any files” option and setup Git later. That workflow is a little strange – but it won’t put you at a dead end.

Using wp-migrate pro to move the database data from the local database – to the database on the host server (the live site).

You could totally export the database and then import the database – and there are many ways / but clicking a button is by far the easiest and least error-prone way.