Testing site before uploading

[geomblog]

I'm using the patch to allow hosting a site from a non-root location (by adding vars to config.json). But now that I've done this, I can no longer do local testing, because URLs that used to be '/static/...' are now 'base_path/static/...' and so I can't test locally using cactus serve. Is there a work around I can use?

[nathan-artist]

@geomblog I have never used the patch you mentioned, and I don't know anything about it, but you could do something similar to the workaround that I reported in issue 273: First, remove the patch so that you can test locally using cactus serve. Then set up a test Amazon S3 bucket to which you can deploy. Then deploy to that test Amazon S3 bucket. Then use a separate client app (I use Cyberduck) to upload the contents of the local .deploy folder to whichever non-root location you want to use.

See also kamalx's comment in issue 246.

[geomblog]

Thanks. Yes, that comment from 246 might be a useful workaround. The one involving S3 seems a little more involved (not to mention that I'd have to create an S3 bucket first).