How do I mirror my current RN76 2.02.02 site?

Involved Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 290 Location: USA

I want to be able to do a *mirror site* to experiment on, while leaving the current site unscaithed. How would I create a mirrored site as my site exists now but perhaps under a different folder, etc? I can be on the same domain but would be it's own functional site so that I can make changes to it and if they work out then I would make those same changes to the main site. I so hate making any changes because it often causes other problems to fix. It would be nice to work on a mirrored site in the background.

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you can do that in 2 ways...
create a folder in your root...like /test/

or do it by subdomain like....

test.yoursite.com
then you can play around,make changes and keep notes of what your doing...
and make a backup of every file you touch .........

and naturaly you first make a copy of your site and upload that to the test site...., that includes the database as well.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:42 pm

Will I have to change config or anything, to get the test site to work in the *new folder*?

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:46 pm

the only thing you have to change is the database name and password...
cause you need to make a different database..(second one)
and make sure you set the url correct in the site config....
after that it runs in seconds...

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:29 pm

"make a different database"?

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:32 pm

yes...
make a copy of your site and the database that goes with it...

then you go to your cpanel / create a new database / then you dump the copied database in the new created one..... Wink

your new database has different name and pass , change that in your config.php

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:55 pm

How do I make a copy of the database? Can I just copy the whole nuke folder and the database is in there? Or is the database somewhere else?

registered · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:56 pm

The database is in the SQL server. Easiest way is to use phpMyAdmin to copy your tables to another database.

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:26 am

No clue how to do that : o/

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:41 am

ive send a pm