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Divergent Preferences in Staging Development Production

Let's list preferences that should not be the same. This is useful if you copy a site from development to production. They could be part of environment variables. You can set via System Configuration.

Likely different

  • db/local.php (unless on different servers)
  • Unified Search index prefix
    • unified_elastic_index_prefix (if both point to the same Elasticsearch instance or cluster) - Elasticsearch index prefix at /tiki-admin.php?page=search
    • unified_manticore_index_prefix if both point to the same Manticore instance or cluster), - Manticore index prefix at /tiki-admin.php?page=search
  • memcache_prefix
  • tiki_cdn
  • Authentication method: If you are connection to Active Directory or LDAP in production, you may want to change this setting in development
  • cookie_name (unless on different domain)
  • cookie_domain
  • domain redirect
  • scheduler_delay introduced in Tiki23 to allow delaying all scheduled tasks to run some minutes after it was supposed to. It's useful for cloned instances, avoiding all schedulers to run at the same time. See Scheduler. Related commit: https://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/77631
  • metatag_robots: You may want "noindex, nofollow" for non-production sites
  • zend_mail_handler = "file" to avoid the test upgrade to send email and confuse end users. Instead, emails are saved to a file
  • tmpDir needs to be set to a writable directory. A clone may require a different path. (An incorrect path can lead to: The search index could not be rebuilt. "/home/xyz/tmp/tiki_mgr/Search_Indexer_manticore_tiki_console.log" cannot be opened with mode "w")

May be different

  • New in Tiki22: Catch all email so you can test everything without spamming users
  • .htaccess setting; You may not have full control over the servers (Apache modules, etc).
    Also: If Tiki is not in the root web directory, you usually have to set the Apache RewriteBase in htaccess. This could different between your environments.
  • Security & Performance setting; The production domain and website may use different security setting than the development website (SSL certificate). Same goes for performance setting that are usually OFF while developing and should be enable and tuned on prod.


See also here: https://tiki.org/Pre-Dogfood+Server#System_Configuration

Also to be careful about: If you are storing files on disk and dev / staging / prod are on the same server (ex: with sub-domains): You should make sure they are pointing to different directories (otherwise, you delete a file on the dev server, and it deletes it on the production server, because the storage is shared). See ideal scenario for file storage

Pref name Path of storage for feature (if stored in directory)
w_use_dir Wiki page attachments
fgal_use_dir File Gallery
t_use_dir Tracker attachments
In each forum Forums


See also:

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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