Create a staging environment

A staging environment is used to test changes before promotion to production. An authoring environment is a staging environment that has workspaces enabled. On an authoring environment, business users can manage business objects for a site within independent workspaces to test potential changes. Administrators and business users can also use workspaces to test emergency fixes for a site before they apply a fix to the production environment.

Run the staging environment on a separate system or system partition from the production environment.

Procedure

1. Create a WebSphere Commerce environment for staging purposes.

2. Install a database client suitable for communication with the production database.

3. Catalog the remote production database so that is accessible from the staging environment.

4. Enable custom tables for staging

5. Configure the database for staging.

See

• Create the staging environment before the production environment
  
• Configure databases for use with the staging utilities
  
• Enable custom tables for staging
  

Related concepts
Stage environment

Related tasks
Configure databases for use with the staging utilities
Create triggers for custom tables

Related reference
Create the staging environment before the production environment