Migrating company.org to dev.company.org

  • Resolved lshr

    (@lshr)


    7 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I asked my web host to copy my development website to the live website (dev.compay.org to company.org). Now, dev.company.org and company.org are sharing the same database (I checked wp-config.php), so I cannot continue working on the development site for future versions.

    I would like dev.company.org and company.org to be exactly the same but with different databases so I can continue to development them separately going forward.

    I have the old database in mySQL from the live site that was over-written by my web host that was installed with WordPress in 2015.

    What is the best way to do this?

    Can I:

    1. Change dev.company.org to the old (2015) database and see if it works.
    2. Update WorPress
    3. Install the Duplicator plugin
    4. Restore from company.org

    Is that right?

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  • Hi @Ishr,

    I’m not sure if I understand your process or the plugin will work in that fashion, here are a few things you might consider… Your host in most cases should have originals of all data/sites, I would double check with them to make sure they don’t have copies somewhere, most hosts run daily/weekly backups and can easily recover back to a restore point. Duplicator is only going to migrate the data you have in the archive.zip file so whatever is in the archive.zip is what you will be able to redeploy or install to.

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