LXer: Easily develop and deploy web applications from subversion
 

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Proper version control is a must for everyone who programs more than a few lines of code, but keeping your web applications or websites under version control is a tad harder that regular programs for two reason: You need a webserver to get your application going and you usually have to manage database revisions as well. Keeping database revisions in sync with your code revisions is a complex subject that I will leave until another time. In this article I will show you how to configure Apache on your development server so that it picks up your checked out working copies automagically as separate subdomains. Then that I will show you how to use dnsmasq so you can achieve the same effect on your local development machine.

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