[Solved] Duplicate Website On Another Domain Name

[T.Baron]

Hello there,

 

So I've been trying to duplicate my current website on another server so I can have a production server and a developement server, but I can't seem to find my way out.

 

I have a production server running the website and an empty developement server right now.

 

The point is if I copy everything, when I change the url in the admin on my new server, it will change also the domain name of my production website, and every user will be redirected on my dev server.

 

At this point I have changed too many things to just do a clean install of prestashop and the theme I use.

 

And whenever I search for any solution on google, it will show me thousands of tutorials on how to migrate my website, but that's not what I want...

 

How can I have a perfect duplication of the website with different admin folders ?

 

Thanks in advance,

Best regards.

Edited January 27, 2016 by T.Baron (see edit history)

[Rolige]

1.- Turn on maintenance mode

2.- Copy all files to the new domain

3.- Copy the database to the new domain

4.- Create user and associated to this database (in the new domain)

5.- Change the user and password (created previously) in the file: new-domain.com/config/settings.inc.php

6.- Change the name of your admin folder

7.- Access to your back office: new-domain.com/new_admin_folder

8.- Go to Preferences > SEO & URLs > SET SHOP URL, change "Shop domain" and "SSL domain" to "www.new-domain.com"

9.- Clear all the cache

10.- Turn off maintenande mode in both shops.

[T.Baron]

Thank you !

It seems to work, but I don't get why step 5 is after step 4, since settings.inc.php contains DB info (which needs to be changed for the new user to be created)

[weloveaccents]

Hi

Sadly this duplicate solution did not work for me.

I am trying to duplicate my live shop cockneyclobber.co.uk to a new test domain cockneyclobber.uk.

I have spent days of my time following various different solutions online (disable/enable friendly URLs, 

disable/enable canonical, refresh the .htaccess file etc etc). None of them have worked. 

I either get 500 server error OR as is the case with your solution, my submenus disappear in Admin

so that when I click on Preferences there are no options, so I can't get to the Maintenance option

to switch out of Maintenance mode. 

Do you have any ideas what could be wrong ? I have tried so many solutions and it's crazy that it's 

not possible to do this. 

Many Thanks

John

[Gipielle]

 

Hi

Sadly this duplicate solution did not work for me.

I am trying to duplicate my live shop cockneyclobber.co.uk to a new test domain cockneyclobber.uk.

I have spent days of my time following various different solutions online (disable/enable friendly URLs, 

disable/enable canonical, refresh the .htaccess file etc etc). None of them have worked. 

I either get 500 server error OR as is the case with your solution, my submenus disappear in Admin

so that when I click on Preferences there are no options, so I can't get to the Maintenance option

to switch out of Maintenance mode. 

Do you have any ideas what could be wrong ? I have tried so many solutions and it's crazy that it's 

not possible to do this. 

Many Thanks

John

 

 

Do you solve this ?