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Environments & Hosting

The Dealers Site is hosted on WP Engine, a managed WordPress hosting platform. Two environments are maintained.

Environments​

EnvironmentURLPurpose
Productionhttps://dealers.scottsdalemint.comLive dealer portal
StagingWP Engine staging URLPre-release testing and QA

WP Engine Features Used​

  • Automated daily backups — point-in-time restores available via WP Engine portal
  • CDN — WP Engine's built-in CDN for static assets
  • PHP version management — configurable per environment
  • Staging environment — one-click copy of production to staging; push staging to production via WP Engine dashboard
  • GitPush deployment — code can be pushed directly to WP Engine via Git remote
  • SSH Gateway — secure SSH access for WP-CLI commands
  • Object cache (Redis) — optional Redis object cache for WooCommerce session and query caching
  • Search & Replace — domain swap tool when cloning environments

Deploying Code​

Via Git​

WP Engine supports deploying via a Git remote:

# Add WP Engine's Git remote (from WP Engine portal → Git Push section)
git remote add wpengine [email protected]:production/dealersscottsdale.git

# Deploy to production
git push wpengine main

# Deploy to staging
git remote add wpe-staging [email protected]:staging/dealersscottsdale.git
git push wpe-staging main

Via WP Engine Portal (Staging)​

  1. Log in to my.wpengine.com.
  2. Navigate to the dealersscottsdale site.
  3. Click Staging → Copy Production to Staging to refresh staging with latest production data.
  4. After testing on staging, click Push to Production to deploy.

Environment Variables & Config​

WordPress does not use a .env file natively. Site-specific constants are defined in wp-config.php:

define( 'DB_NAME',     'dealers_db' );
define( 'DB_USER',     'db_user' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'db_password' );
define( 'DB_HOST',     'localhost' );

// Algolia
define( 'ALGOLIA_APP_ID',   'XXXXXXXXXX' );
define( 'ALGOLIA_API_KEY',  'xxxxxxxx' );

// Pricing API token (for /suma/v1/prices endpoint)
define( 'PRICES_API_TOKEN', 'your_secret_token' );

WP Engine allows setting PHP constants and environment variables via their portal under PHP Settings.

Bitbucket Pipelines​

The site uses Bitbucket Pipelines (bitbucket-pipelines.yml) for CI/CD:

  • Runs PHP syntax checks and asset compilation
  • Can trigger an automated deploy push to WP Engine on main branch merge

Review bitbucket-pipelines.yml in the repository root for the current pipeline configuration.