Staging

Staging is how we refer to the environment that holds our websites that are in progress or under review. These websites are available to the project team and hold all the content that will eventually be launched in a new website. When a site is in staging, or when changes are being made to staging, it is relatively safe to make changes as long as you are building a new theme and not updating a theme that is in use on live. Staging and live are both parts of a larger production environment, which holds all University website content, including content and websites that are in progress or under review (staging). These two environments share the same codebase, which means that an update to staging will also update that same code on live, unless a special process is put in place.

Because of the way staging works, there are some special considerations for content when working on a staging site. See content entry for these details.

One of the protections we have in this environment is that you cannot manually upload any changes to it. The only way to make a change to staging—or any production environment—is to request a deploy.