# How to setup both development and production environment

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-both-development-and-production-environment/47040>\
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**Created:** [July 9, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-both-development-and-production-environment/47040 "2016-07-09T17:58:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-setup-both-development-and-production-environment/47040/1 "2016-07-09T17:58:54Z")

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Hi,

I’m new to Discourse and Ruby, so forgive me for asking such simple question. But I have a production website with Docker running on my DigitalOcean server and a development version with Vagrant running on my Mac. Is this the proper setup? Or should I make both environments on my server? After tweaking and developing in the development environment, what’s the best practice to deploy everything I did to the server? Please help me with this or suggest me a tutorial if possible. Thank you so much!

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