On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com wrote:
Not sure if there is an app like this yet. I want to keep tabs on my web applications and thought of using a 'page checker'/
I was thinking either running a sum on the directory or each file...but thinking a simple date check would be fine.
The idea is web application, except the uploads area for photos, never has changes to its files except when I change it.
However, if it gets injected or hacked, I would want to know right away.
So thinking of running a script every minute looking for files where the date changed since 'x' date or something like that.
Anything out there like that?
One approach is to make the changes on a staging/test server, then rsync them to the real server. Then 'rsync -nv --delete' will list any changed files. The step beyond that is to commit all changes to a version control system like subversion, check them out on the staging box, then push to production with rsync - or update directly to the tested revision on the production server(s). The version control system will have its own commands to show changes from the repository version.