{"id":502,"date":"2024-04-01T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/?page_id=502"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:11:27","slug":"our-setup","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/github-smartsheets\/our-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"ID’s Dev Environment Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

IS&T<\/a> manages Boston University’s web servers and capabilities.<\/p>\n

We use a multi-network, multi-site WordPress installation of these web servers for Lead Designers and Developers to build Responsive Framework projects and components.<\/p>\n

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Development Server<\/h3>\n

Our Development<\/em><\/strong> [cms-devl<\/code>] server consists of sandboxes for developing Responsive Framework<\/a> themes, components<\/a>, and product demos.<\/p>\n

Development Server<\/a><\/p>\n

Production Server<\/h3>\n

Our Production<\/em><\/strong> server is an intermingling of publicly visible [bu.edu<\/code>] BU websites and our private Staging<\/em> BU sites for our clients to manage, review, and approve content, design, and development aspects up to launch day [sites-staging<\/code> or www-staging<\/code>].<\/p>\n

Our\u00a0Static Sites [webdev<\/code>] are within the production environment [as part of AFS], consisting of dedicated space for our centralized CDN assets, “Webteam” client presentations, and project Documentation.<\/p>\n

Production Server<\/a><\/p>\n

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Server Support<\/h2>\n

If any server is ever unreachable and WordPress is lagging or giving 504 errors, clone tool is broken or media is not loading: we encourage all users to make it known to @istweb<\/code> in the #webteam<\/a> Slack channel, following up by filing a ticket<\/a> with IS&T.<\/p>\n

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Deploys<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Deployment is the process of transferring code, configurations, and assets from a GitHub repository branch [whose code has been QA tested and review-approved in our development server] to our production server. Lead Designers put in a request in our #interactive-design channel to Lead Developers who use a special deploy tool to do this.<\/p>\n

Requesting a Deploy<\/a><\/p>\n

Using the Deploy Tool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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