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I just started using Silverstripe. It is pretty cool. I want to start experimenting with the PHP and css and stuff, but not upload the changes to the website until I'm ready. What is the preferred way of doing this? It'd be kind of like a mirror website but with access to the same database.
So what do you all do? Copy everything to a second directory and open up a second web server through a different port or something?
A couple of ways, you could use a solution like MAMP or WAMP if wanting to develop locally or use a Vagrant based environment.
Personally I use the Laravel solution called Homestead and just customise the nginx host files a bit, works very well. Im sure you could find a Vagrant box specifically for SilverStripe as its quite a common setup.
HTH
The Australian SilverStripe guys have this in their GitHub account too...
https://github.com/silverstripe-australia/vagrant-environment
