What is best practice for developing multiple sites on the same development
machine?
The sites are not meant to be deployed to the same production server - the
sites are developed for different clients and should be uploaded to
different servers. How can we easily code and maintain all of these
solutions at the same time?
Will it be easier if the development machine is running 2003 Server
(multiple sites in IIS possible) rather than XP prof.?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Thomas N. Sørensen

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Hi Thomas,

use the "map channel name to host header feature" to separate the sites and
create different template projects.
All these projects should be created in the default web site.
Thats all you need to do.

Cheers,
Stefan.

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"Thomas N. Sørensen" <tns@mondo.dk> wrote in message
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> What is best practice for developing multiple sites on the same
development
> machine?
> The sites are not meant to be deployed to the same production server - the
> sites are developed for different clients and should be uploaded to
> different servers. How can we easily code and maintain all of these
> solutions at the same time?
> Will it be easier if the development machine is running 2003 Server
> (multiple sites in IIS possible) rather than XP prof.?
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas N. Sørensen
>
>

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Even though it is best practice to use Developer Edition;

I will just mention that you cannot develop on CMS Std edition if you want
to use the 'map host header' feature.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows...comparison.mspx

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"Stefan [MSFT]" <stefang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Thomas,
>
> use the "map channel name to host header feature" to separate the sites
and
> create different template projects.
> All these projects should be created in the default web site.
> Thats all you need to do.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan.
>
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> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> MCMS FAQ:
>

> MCMS Blog: [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/stefan_gossner/category/4983.aspx" target="_blank">http://download.microsoft.com/downl...egory/4983.aspx
> MCMS Sample Code:
>
http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/...
+Server
> MCMS Whitepapers and other docs:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/stefan_gossne...2/07/41859.aspx
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>
>
> "Thomas N. Sørensen" <tns@mondo.dk> wrote in message
> news:eQNDJm1aEHA.4036@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... 
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Thanks for the advice. But it seems that your deployment gets a little bit m
ore difficult: You have to seperate the template definitions, channels etc. 
before uploading to the correct production server. Today we initially just m
ake a backup of the databas
e and restore it in the production environment. This is not possible if muli
tiple solutions is mixed in the same development CMS database.

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Development Manager
Mondo A/S


"Angus Logan" wrote:

> Even though it is best practice to use Developer Edition;
>
> I will just mention that you cannot develop on CMS Std edition if you want
> to use the 'map host header' feature.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows...comparison.mspx
>
> --
>  ________________________________________

>
> Angus Logan
> Lead Software Developer
> Microsoft Application Solutions
> Data#3 Limited
> E angus_logan@data3.com.au
> BLOG www.anguslogan.com
>  ________________________________________

>
> "Stefan [MSFT]" <stefang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:e5l0DJ4aEHA.3420@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... 
> and 
> rights. 
> http://download.microsoft.com/downl...
a/MCMS+2002+-+(complete)+FAQ.htm 
> http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/...nagement+Server 
> the 
>
>
>

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Hi Thomas,

you should create different template projects for the different sites and
create different channel, template and resource gallery structures beside
each others.
Then it is possible to copy the template projects to the different
production servers and to initially deploy the channels, resource galleries
and template galleries using SiteManager and later on use incremental site
deployment to deploy the updates.
If the channels structures live side-by-side then incremental deployment can
be triggered with the start channel guid in order to ensure that the correct
content is deployed to the correct production server.

Cheers,
Stefan.

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> Thanks for the advice. But it seems that your deployment gets a little bit
more difficult: You have to seperate the template definitions, channels etc.
before uploading to the correct production server. Today we initially just
make a backup of the database and restore it in the production environment.
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>
> --
> Best regards
>
> Thomas N. Sørensen
> Development Manager
> Mondo A/S
>
>
> "Angus Logan" wrote:
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