Native multi-environment support

For the record, environment detection is fairly easy with EE 3:

https://gist.github.com/tjdraper/d875ecd2809ae52e4254

This is using the same principles as the Focus Lab master config, but trying to keep things as native as possible by using the EE user config file.

Yeah I like that TJ, it’s similar to what I use. This is partly an education issue, and partly providing a sensible default base.

One important security related issue for people using dynamic config, whether they use someone else’s solution or roll their own is to ensure that they either:

1. aren’t using the HTTP_HOST header
2. or are comparing it to a whitelist and falling back on a default if there is no match

I’m using HTTP_HOST in my gist. Do you have a recommendation for something else or to make what I have safer?

I’d use a whitelist like you are doing for SERVER_NAME.

That’s a good idea. I’ll get that updated tonight.

Looks good! But How to set different upload paths? The upload path for local (MAMP) and production differs…

Note on line 94 of config.php I’m requiring config.uploadPreferences.php.

Then in config.uploadPreferences.php I’m using the $uploadsPath variable which I have set dynamically earlier in the config to get to the right directory for your public directory. From there you set your path. Make sure to use the DIRECTORY_SEPERATOR constant if you want the config to work in any PHP/OS environment.

The URL can be set as a root-relative link as you see in the example.

Got it, thanks!