Welcome
This site aims to be a comprehensive guide to Magallanes. We’ll cover topics such as getting your site up and running, deploying to various environments, and give you some advice on participating in the future development of Magallanes itself.
So what is Magallanes, exactly?
Magallanes is a deployment tool for PHP applications. It’s quite simple to use and manage. It will get your application to a safe harbor. You can instruct Magallanes to deploy your code to all the servers you want (eg: rsync over ssh), and run tasks for that freshly deployed code.
Helpful Hints
Throughout this guide there are a number of small-but-handy pieces of information that can make using Magallanes easier, more interesting, and less hazardous. Here’s what to look out for.
ProTips™ help you get more from Magallanes
These are tips and tricks that will help you be a Magallanes wizard!
Notes are handy pieces of information
These are for the extra tidbits sometimes necessary to understand Magallanes.
Warnings help you not blow things up
Be aware of these messages if you wish to avoid certain death.
You'll see this by a feature that hasn't been released
Some pieces of this website are for future versions of Magallanes that are not yet released.
If you come across anything along the way that we haven’t covered, or if you know of a tip you think others would find handy, please file an issue and we’ll see about including it in this guide.