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I am new to Craft 3 and never set up a local environment with composer, bitbucket and gulp. So I dived into all these things to get my hands on Craft 3. At the moment I am using a shared hosting without a ssh access so I have to deploy my site by using FTP Upload. Is it correct that I just need to upload the entire Craft folder with all its subcategories (/vendors, /config, /modules etc. etc.) after development to the production server and then just to adapt the .env file?

I am a little bit curious about this, since it is recommended not to upload some of the sensitive folders with access to a repo. I know that this due to the fact that nobody should see your logins public. This does not apply for the production server? If I point my subdomain to the /web folder with its index.php on the production server everything should be fine? Just want to be sure.

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So the way I'd recommend doing it is that you use .gitignore to exclude your /vendor directory from the repo; a good starter .gitignore file can be found here: https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-scripts/blob/master/example.gitignore

Then you'll work on it in local dev, update Craft/plugins in local dev, and on deploy to production have it do composer install to update your /vendor dir to match what is is your composer.lock file.

The article Setting up a New Craft CMS 3 Project covers this in the DEPLOYING CRAFT CMS section.

You also might want to get a workflow set up for syncing the database and assets as per the Database & Asset Syncing Between Environments in Craft CMS article.

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  • Hi Andrew thanks for your detailed answer. Yes, I read this article carefully and I am already aware how to use gitignore. Since I can't push the repro to the production server I just want to get sure that this is the right way: Working on local dev (using gitignore with git to store a save copy) and then during production use composer install and upload the entire local folder (with vendors, env.file etc. etc.) to my shared server where the domain points to the /web folder avoiding to grant access to the sensitive files (env.file, db.php etc.)?
    – Pascal G.
    Jan 23, 2018 at 13:07
  • Yep, that's correct!
    – andrew.welch
    Jan 23, 2018 at 23:52

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