Development Site

  • Dear all,

    I have a WordPress Site up and running for more than two years now.
    Now I want to relaunch the site: new theme and a bit more.

    So I figured, I’d set up a (non public) “development” site of my blog, so I can test extensively.

    My first attempt: Copied the files of my original “productive” WP installation to another directory, which is assigned to another domain. Set up a new separate database and imported the backup (created with the plugin WordPress Database Backup 2.2.4 by Austin Matzko). Edited wp-config appropriately.

    Result: looks fine, but redirects to my original WP installation. Whatever I modify is modified in my “productive” site.

    My second attempt: Installed a completely new WP and empty database. Imported database backup.

    Result: same as before.

    Can anybody help me here?

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  • I would suggest working your way through this documentation:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    If you run into specific problems or questions, please respond to this thread.

    Specifically, you have to:

    – edit the siteurl and home fields in the new database with the new location; that is, change:

    https://www.productionsite.com to https://www.devsite.com

    – in the new location, install and run this plugin to change the media and link URLs:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

    – then, to handle any links that are stored as serialized strings, install and run this script in the folder of the new site:

    https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

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