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Creating a Staging Site
Hi guys
Any advice on the best way to create basic staging site from live - to test the upgrade from perch 2 -> 3.
Assuming: 1. Copy site files to staging site 2. Make a copy of the database 3. Update config file with new database details / staging key
Yup that's about it :)
Your license can have three locations added, local, staging and live so you can use the same key as long as your staging domain is entered in your account.
Ok thanks: 1. I copied all my files from www.glsescouts.org.uk to staging.glsescouts.org.uk 2. I've copied and restored the database to perch_staging
Although following errored as part of the restore - not sure if this is critical?
Result
Any help would be appreciated.
Was this outside of Perch? I'm presuming using
mysqldump
or some sort of database tool. You need to make sure you can dump and then restore the database without any errors. Once the restore is successful I think you should be fine.