I've had amazing experience setting up development sandboxes with VMWare Workstation and deploying them on Player (which means less investment in licenses). I use MySQL replication from the live server for keeping the DBs in sync and SVN for file management. If I've got people who use win32 as their workstation OS (I frequently do), I add a samba share to make file editing even easier. I find that with 128-256 MB RAM and a few GB diskspace spare on the developers workstations this makes development easier on everyone.
If you have need/want, you can use VMWare ACE to further control access to the dev sandboxes (from dealing with consultants who need temporary access to renegade employees) but that costs more. Issac Perrin Harkins wrote: > On 10/15/07, jk jk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry, 1 server under which all developers run a separate copy of the app >> using their own URI. > > I think you have your answer then: run a separate server for each > developer. That's what I consider the "normal" way to do it, and it's > easy. You don't even need to install separate binaries -- just start > the server with a custom httpd.conf specifying the port or IP to use. > > I think it's even better when each developer runs their own server on > their own machine, but that's not necessary for fixing your current > problem. > > There are some other things you could try for running a different @INC > per VirtualServer with mod_perl 2, which you'll find in the mail > archives. I find it a lot more convenient to have an actual separate > server so you can restart it when you need to. (Apache2::Reload is > not perfect, since Perl really has no way to reload a module.) > > - Perrin
