Installation

[firstforward]

Hello,

 

I have sucessfully installed PS at my site, I want to add new features and amend some existing features over time without the possibility of screwing up a live site. I have installed PS again at a sub domain, can I get this new site to look at the same database as the first site without any problems. The idea being to carry out changes on the second site to make sure it is thoroughly tested and works ok before making changes to the live site. Am I going about this all correctly or is there a better solution.

[bellini13]

almost. you want to create a second database to match up with your subdomain.

so create a new database and then...

 

1) using phpmyadmin, export your live database to a sql file.

2) using phpmyadmin, import your .sql to the new test database

3) update the config settings for the subdomain to point to your new database, this is located under /config/settings.inc.php

 

now you will have a complete copy of your live site to perform testing on. changes that you make on your subdomain site, you then just apply to your live site in the exact same manner.