Setting up a test copy of a website [closed]

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I'm my own developer for my little discussion forum and commerce website. So far so good.

Now I want to create a complete/exact copy of my production site so I can do development work without putting the production site at risk. I registered a domain www.dev-foosite.com that I hope can become the copy of my site www.foosite.com

Here's the snag. I have a VPS hosting account which works great so far -- but I can't use the cpanel backup from the main site, as a restore to the dev site. My hosting company says that there is a username conflict and even if we change the username, then the mySQL databases will need to be renamed.

So before I get wrapped around the axle on this, how should I proceed? I'd rather not have to purchase another separate hosting account but if that's the only answer I guess I will.

Answer 1

Go to phpmyadmin and export the database. In cpanel, go and make a new database. Then in phpmyadmin. Import the database.

Now, download all of the files into a folder from the forum using an FTP client like Filezilla

Then upload the previously downloaded files to the dev site

Edit config.php with the new database and password and change the server settings in admin control panel in phpbb to your new webiste url.

Answer 2

I think this website will help you out: http://www.phpbb-seo.com/en/phpbb-forum/local-server-setup-xampp-t4965.html

It basically runs you through downloading and installing XAMPP so you can download your remote site so you can work on it locally. When you're ready to go live, just publish the changes.