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Download a partial Database Backup

Download one or more specific tables from a Database Backup copy of a WordPress single site or a WordPress multisite environment.

Download a full database backup

Download a backup copy of the entire database of a WordPress single site or a WordPress multisite environment.

Enable HTTPS for a VIP Local Development Environment

By default, VIP Local Development Environment URLs resolve with HTTP rather than HTTPS, the secure browsing protocol. When developing locally, some users may have a need for URLs to resolve at HTTPS (e.g. applications with payment integrations). For HTTPS to work as expected, a trusted digital certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA certificate) for the local environment must be added to the user’s machine.

Configuration file for a VIP Local Development Environment

A custom configuration file enables a VIP Local Development Environment with specific settings to be created in a repeatable manner. If the configuration file is committed to an application’s source-controlled GitHub repository, multiple team members with access to that repository can use the file to create VIP Local Development Environments with identical settings.

Cache-control headers

The cache-control HTTP header specifies directives that control how browsers, CDNs, and proxies handle cached responses. In most cases, the cache-control header value for WordPress and Node.js applications can be set to custom response directives.

Flush the object cache

The object cache can be flushed with the WP-CLI command wp cache flush. WP-CLI commands must be run with VIP-CLI.

Enable HTTP request Log Shipping

When enabled, HTTP Request Log Shipping ships copies of an application’s HTTP request logs at 5-minute intervals to a configured cloud storage bucket (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets, Google Cloud Storage buckets, Azure Blob Storage).

Database Backup Shipping

VIP's Database Backup Shipping feature makes it possible to ship database backups at regular intervals to an AWS S3 bucket managed by an organization.

Advanced usage

The VIP Local Development Environment is built to be as identical to a VIP Platform environment as possible, and designed to allow for a wide variety of options needed in local development. Once a user gains familiarity with dev-env commands and options, more advanced techniques and customizations can be explored when working with a local environment.