Title: Installation environment
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Installation environment

 *  [toleolu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toleolu/)
 * (@toleolu)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-environment/)
 * We have decided to use WordPress for our website. This will be a fairly simple
   static website with content being updated by select employees. This will not 
   be blog. The site itself is primarily informational in nature with a few forms
   that will email data to certain employees when submitted, and periodic updates
   covering current events and such. All in all, not a very comlex application.
 * We currently have a full development and production enviornment in place which
   we are using to develop web based applications for internal use. This testing
   and production environment consists of two idententically configured RHEL Apache
   Servers running things like Passenger, Rails, and Capistrano. One is the testing
   server, the other is the production server. I am uncertain as to a lot of the
   details of this setup as I am not involved on the development side of things.
 * We are considering installing WordPress on these server. My concern is that while
   this setup works great for the development, testing, and delivery of our web 
   based applications, it may be a bit overly complex for the needs of our website.
   We already encountered a problem with Permalinks caused by Rails that took us
   about a week or so to fix, and I have a feeling we will encounter similar problems
   down the road as we install additional plug ins and enable additional WordPress
   features.
 * I was hoping to get some input from the forum as to whether or not the benefits
   of running WordPress in such and environment justify the complexity. Or, all 
   things considered, wouldn’t we just be better off running wordpress on it’s own
   server and keeping both environmens seperate. Keep in mind that we have no plans
   at this time to develop any applications under WordPress.
 * Thanks;

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 *  [Christi Nickerson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christini/)
 * (@christini)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-environment/#post-2358590)
 * Hi toleolu,
 * Just a suggestion for making it easier to control your settings for WordPress.
   Could you setup a VPS server for running WordPress?
 *  [TCBarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcbarrett/)
 * (@tcbarrett)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-environment/#post-2358617)
 * I’m not sure what your ruby issue will have to do with WordPress. Linux flavour
   makes little difference. Server architecture depends on your requirements.
 * You need PHP and MySQL to run WordPress. You can build deployment processes using
   source control if you want to. There are a number of ways that it can be done,
   but it depends on your business needs as to how to implement it.
 * I’m not quite clear on what you are asking. You don’t need to test WordPress 
   itself, but you may want to test how adding plugins, core updates and theme changes
   affects your site. You may want a test area for that. But you might not want 
   to deploy those changes as much as replicate them on the live site manually?

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 * Last reply from: [TCBarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcbarrett/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-environment/#post-2358617)
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