Question Plesk for a Development Server

[NateWon]

Hello, we are looking at improving our processes, and one thing that has come up is the time it takes for us to launch a site in development.
Currently this is done on a Ubuntu box, manually added to Apache etc, not a major and not explicitly difficult but does take more time than I think we need to be spending on the work.
So, I was wondering whether I could use Plesk on the development server, to help make this faster and enable very easy inter PHP changes - we have projects on a few versions of PHP (yes still some old projects stuck in 5.6) but would be great to have the ease to test sites on PHP 8 before fiddling with the live applications.

So though I can set that up, my main concern is the development environment, are there any issues adding the Desktop components to Ubuntu and running that with Plesk on the same machine?

 

[IgorG]

I think that you can use a staging site for your purpose. Please read Plesk documentation about it: Working with a Staging Site

are there any issues adding the Desktop components to Ubuntu and running that with Plesk on the same machine?

I suppose there shouldn't be any problems.

 

[NateWon]

Hello,

I think that you can use a staging site for your purpose. Please read Plesk documentation about it: Working with a Staging Site

I suppose there shouldn't be any problems.

Hello, that won't help sorry - the current text editor in Plesk seems to have lost the ability to keep tabs open, and certainly wouldn't be ideal for writing code.
Essentially I was hoping to leverage the abilities of Plesk as well as run a full desktop with IDE.