work in progress, not final

The dev server has the linux firewall enabled and only IPs that are on the list are allowed to connect to the server.

There is a dev site that can be accessed at https://master.beacontechnology.com

It is possible for the developer to make changes to dev and preview them without affecting production.

Since the database is synced from prod to dev, work must be performed with this in mind.

code is to be modified, then when the code is in a state that you are ready to publish, commit work to the local dev repo, then push from dev to prod

To make changes, ssh to username@dev.beacontechnology.com

You should be automatically logged in as masterbeacon user.

The website files are located at /home/masterbeacon/public_html

Modify the files to your liking with your preferred editor.

When done and ready to publish, stage and commit all changes using git commit -a

This will commit changes to the local repo.

To publish changes, we