How it Works

Instant Creation of Development Environments

WebEnabled removes the need for you to setup your development environment. This saves you time and allows you to begin development immediately. No need to worry about PHP, MySQL, Apache config and setting up version control. On top of this we have a library of applications that can be installed on-demand including Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, and more.

It's as simple as logging in to your dashboard at your WebEnabled address (i.e. http://acme.webenabled.com). By filling out a simple form you can start a new application within a minute. Applications are conveniently organized into projects that are accessible and managed from your dashboard.

Please watch our 2.5 minute introductory video to get an idea for how easy it is to get started using WebEnabled.

Connecting to your Application to Add and Edit Files

There are only three things you need to connect to your application so you can edit files: shell username, shell password, and application URL. Each of these is provided for you when you start the application from your dashboard. Or you can get this information from the application management page.

In this section we will show you how to connect to your application using a terminal so you can add and edit the application files and also access the MySQL command prompt. You can use any terminal based program to connect to your application. PuTTY is a popular terminal program that runs on Windows.

It is also fairly easy to manage your application files using popular editors such as Aptana, Coda, Dreamweaver, and any other editor that has built in support for SSH, SCP, or SFTP. Our Knowledge Base provides detailed articles that will help you configure your editor to manage your application files. Once you understand how to configure a given editor, it is essentially the same process for any other editor, but the interface may be different.

• Aptana help article
• Coda help article
• Dreamweaver help article

Please watch our 1.5 minute Dreamweaver configuration video that will show you how to manage your application files using this popular editor.

Team Management and Access Control

Using WebEnabled as a collaborative platform is one of its key strengths. You can add and manage people from your dashboard. You can add and remove members from projects. You can manage access to your applications. Best of all, it's simple and easy to do.

Have you ever gone through the hassle of creating a developer environment and then the developer loses their username and password? With WebEnabled it's simple for them to get a new one without bothering you at all. This is just one example where team management saves time using WebEnabled.

Another example. Ok. How about the user wants to get access to phpMyAdmin. With WebEnabled the developer can login to your dashboard, find their application and browse the phpMyAdmin link on the Management page. It's simple, easy, and the developer doesn't have to bother you anymore.

We have created a 5 minute introductory video that will help you get started. After that it's up to you to decide how to organize and manage your people. :-) Feel free to watch this video a couple times for the conceptual aspect to sink in. It covers a lot of ground quickly.

Save time & effort with Clones

Do you ever find yourself rebuilding your web-apps over and over again? Getting puzzled with tiresome file-exports and database-dumps that doesn't seem to piece back together?

Then worry not.

WebEnabled gives you the ability to duplicate an existing web-app so you can share your application to your team members, or if you prefer: to the world!

Deployment to Production

WebEnabled provides a feature that allows you to push your web-applications to another server. For example, you may want to stage a copy of your application into a web-server linked to your hosting provider account (such as GoDaddy, HostMonster, BlueHost, 1&1). By doing so, this functionality will collect your app's source-code which eventually will be copied to your remote web-server. You may optionally set the database to be copied as well.

Getting Started with SVN (Version Control)

Version control using SVN is seamless with WebEnabled. No need to manage your repositories using arcane commands and setup proceedures. WebEnabled also provides convenient team member access control. There is also an easy-to-use browseable Web interface for each repository. Please read our brief article about how-to access SVN with WebEnabled.

If you are completely new to SVN then we recommend browsing the free Subversion Book.

When you are ready, please watch our 1 minute creating an SVN repository using WebEnabled video.
Once you are familiar with creating repositories you may wish to watch our 1.75 minute video about adding and committing files to your WebEnabled SVN repository.