A custom, multi-environment setup for Craft CMS.

We've updated Craft to run comfortably in any environment that we send it to. A few changes have to be made to the primary index.php file and to the environment-specfic config and database files, and then you can work on localhost, staging, dev, production, or wherever else you fancy.

• Moved system folder above web root
• Added test for environment to /public_html/index.php
• Define environment variable in index.php
• Move plugin folder to just above web root for easier access
• Move template folder to just above web root for easier access
• Added folders for default environments: local, dev, live
• Added copies of general.php and db.php in each environment folder
• Updated /craft/config/general.php to merge in environment specific config settings
• Updated /craft/config/db.php to merge in environment specific database settings
• Moved some config overrides to /craft/config/general.php for easier access
• Added some config overrides to general.php in local and dev environments
  • Increase logged in user session duration to 101 years
  • Set devMode to true

We've added a handful of things to our base .htaccess file. This assumes certain server settings are turned on and may throw errors if they are not. If that sounds like a headache, you may just want to roll with the default .htaccess provided by Craft.

• Example code to redirect public access to an offline page while updates are being made
• Example code to password protect a single environment
• Set proper MIME type for all files
• Set gzip compression rules
• Set Expires headers
• ETag removal
• Remove www from URL
• Force SSL when using dashboard
• Example code to remove trailing slashes from URL
• Prevent 404 errors for non-existing redirected folders
• Set UTF-8 encoding
• Add various security enhancements
• Example code to setup relative 301 redirects that will work in any environment
• Remove index.php from the URL