How do you deploy a website to your webservers?

Question

At my company we have a group of 8 web developers for our business web site (entirely written in PHP, but that shouldn\'t matter). Everyone in the group is working on differ

Answer 1

You can probably use Capistrano even though is more for ruby there are some articles that describe how to use it for PHP

I think Phing can be use with CVS but not with SVN (at least that what I last read)

There are also some project around that mimic Capistrano but written in PHP.

Otherwise there is also a custom made solution :

1. tag files you want to deploy.
2. checkout files using the tag in a
   specific directory
3. symlink the directory to the current document root (easy to rollback to the previous version)