editing webpage without disturbing web content

[omni]

hi pals

Is there a way to edit a webpage without disturbing the live content?

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[angus]

mate
you will have to be more specific with your question, can't answer you? -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[damien]

Yes, but it is very difficult, the trick is to get it done as close to instant as possible, for example you can upload your updated site to a different folder, then move the folder with the old files and then move the new files into place, a move command is very very fast and if done in a shell script can get your entire site replaced and updated in a tiny fraction of a second

the other option that you can use if your site uses multiple servers is to redirect all traffic to one server and update the other, then move all the traffic to the updates server and work on the other. -- This message may have been cut off and the rest will only be shown to members. To become a member, click here --

[kaitlyn]

You could use Subversion (SVN) (even if there's only one person developing a project) - that's what I do at least. I checkout my projects when I'm at home, make changes to some pages and check them back into the repository. I wrote a 'post-commit' hook that would copy all my files to my live-server where the changes appear instantly after checking them in. You should have some knowledge in SVN though.

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