New Website Setup

Cloudways Server

• Install Live Site & Create Staging site
• Install Varnish, Redis, Memcached
• Activate SSH
• Add RSA keys to server for Master, Live, and Test Site
• Upgrade to PHP8 and MariaDB 10.4 or MySQL 8
• Activate Local Backups
• Whitelist IP address of personal computer

Live Site add password until ready to launch

Login through SSH

$ htpasswd -c .htpasswd kris

Enter Password and add it to project notes

$ chmod 644 .htpasswd
$ PWD=`pwd`
$ echo -e "\n#Protect Directory\nAuthName \"Dialog prompt\"\nAuthType Basic\nAuthUserFile $PWD/.htpasswd\nRequire valid-user\n" >> .htaccess

Live Site Other Settings

• HTTPS Redirection Force https://
• php.ini – time_zone (America/Los_Angeles)

Staging Site

• Disable Varnish
• php.ini – show errors

Development Environment

• Add Live and Test Servers to RClone
• Create Volume Folders
• Create Mount scripts
• Verify they work
• Create Working folders inside of Clients:
  • Client Name
    • Assets
    • Notes
    • Website

PHP IDE – PHPStorm

• Create new empty project inside of Clients/<Client Name>/<Website>
• Add Git Version Control
• Install .ignore plugin into PHPStorm if missing
• Add .gitignore file with WordPress template, and save.
• Add deployment settings to SFTP Test Server
  • Upload changed files automatically > On explicit save action
  • Delete remote files when local are deleted
  • Preserve original file permissions (SFTP only) > Yes
• Tools > Deployment > Download From Server
• Add PHP Framework
• Make Initial Commit
• Commit and Push to Github