Switching to a the same OS doesn't solve this particular problem. Of course there are advantages if your development, testing and production areas all use the same platform, but that has little to do with configuration issues. Typical configuration issues include (but are not limited to): user names, passwords, database names, database servers, file and directory names, hostnames, and port numbers.

One way of dealing with it is by using environment variables, but that quickly becomes unwieldy. A typical way of dealing with this is configuration files. Configuration files could be stored at a fixed location (say /etc/opt/app/application-name/config); a location relative the program, the working directory during startup, or the home-directory of the user; given as a parameter of the program; passed via an environment variable; or some combination of them.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Switching Between Development and Production Environments by Abigail-II
in thread Switching Between Development and Production Environments by svsingh

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