I have a website built on php and MySQL and trying to finally become more organised using git for making a distinction between code that is live and code that is still in test. I am the only developer working on the site
I cannot afford having a production and test server. So on the same server I made separate folders, one which is live /www/live/ and the other that is in development /www/dev/.
The development part of the site /www/dev/ is linked to a sub-domain dev.mydomain.com
Problem 1: I wish to setup git in such a way that my commits go to /www/dev/ and my pushes go live to /www/live. Is it reasonable to do it this way?
Problem 2: There are two places in the /www/dev code where links to the MySQL development database and folders are hard-coded. Commits would work fine, but then pushes would change the live code to now point to development databases and folders.
