Configure projects for development and production environments
- Optimizely Web Experimentation
- Optimizely Personalization
Many organizations have separate development and production environments so they can build and test new features without disturbing production traffic. You can create separate projects for each environment to help with governance.
With separate development and production projects, your organization can safely build and QA experiments and Personalization campaigns in a development environment before deploying to production. This approach lets multiple stakeholders in your organization act as gatekeepers for running experiments and campaigns in production.
Configure projects
First, you should create two projects, one for development and one for production. Each project needs its own snippet.
- Create a project for your development environment.
- Implement the snippet in the head tag for that environment.
- Add the collaborators whom you would like to have access to your development project.
- Create a project for your production environment.
- Implement the production project snippet in the head tag of the production environment.
- Add collaborators who should have access to your production project.
Prepare each project by creating pages, events, and audiences in each project.
Create and deploy experiments
Once you have configured your development and production projects, use them to create, test, and deploy experiments.
- Create an experiment in your development environment. If your development URLs are the same as the URLs used for your production environment, make sure that your production environment does not use the snippet from your development project.
- Build the experiment for your production project.
When you are ready, start the experiment or campaign in your production project.