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Enterprise Search is a search solution and a performance-enhancing layer developed by WordPress VIP. Enterprise Search can be enabled on a VIP Local Development Environment for testing and development.
How to use Composer for managing runtime or development dependencies on VIP.
Local development and testing can be more effective if the local environment is running with a copy of a production environment’s database and media files.
VIP recommends setting up a local development environment with the VIP Local Development Environment feature built into VIP-CLI. The steps outlined here are a separate and alternative method for setting up a local environment with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV).
Create one or more local development environments, each with their own unique configurations, using the VIP Local Development Environment built into VIP-CLI.
Developing code, debugging code, and performing minor testing can be more convenient on a local or cloud development environment than on a non-production VIP Platform environment.
Tthe WooCommerce plugin and related extensions should be maintained on the most up to date release version. This is essential for application security, and provides the benefits of bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as having access to new features.
WooCommerce provides instructions to enable WooCommerce Debug Logging. However, on VIP the WC Logger must be configured to write to the WC_Log_Handler_DB handler to prevent debug logs from writing to the /tmp files directory. This WC Logger handler should be defined in the vip-config.php file as seen in this example:
When troubleshooting an issue with WooCommerce core or extensions, the first step is to reproduce the issue in a local development environment and a non-production environment. Set up the local development environment by following the outlined steps for provisioning the VIP application’s codebase and the VIP MU plugins.
Enterprise Search Dev Tools is built into Enterprise Search and can be found in the WordPress admin tool bar when Enterprise Search is enabled. Enterprise Search Dev Tools is useful for debugging and testing individual queries by allowing Elasticsearch queries to be edited and run in real-time.