web development paths and apache

Hello,

I'm always willing to dig around for info myself but I need a help with determining a direction to go with this one.

I have my own development envrionment in my home office and I'm using apache on linux for my local web server. I'm familiar with .htaccess, rewrites and aliases, but I'm not sure how to approach the issues I'm having with a completed development project.

When working on a project, I setup a virtual domain on my local box so I can reference links, inlines, etc from the document root / as it will be when the project is deployed.

I don't want to allow clients access to my private development server (for bandwidth reasons among others) but I need to allow them access to finished projects so we can go through the approval process.

I have a hosted domain for my business and they're using apache as well.

I'm trying to figure out how I can move the finished project to my domain and put it in a protected subfolder so the client may check everything over.

The obvious issue is paths. Once the site is in the subfolder, the paths are no longer relevant to /. I have access to my zonefile and have considered a subdomain for the site, but I'm not sure that will work for this particular situation or even how to really set it up. If I thought that was the right solution, I can find plenty of information on how to do it, but as I said, I'm not sure a subdomain will handle this issue.

Any suggestions?

Use a consistent path on both boxes. When you are ready to launch your site, it's just as simple as tar'ring up your dirs and untar it on the other.