Setting up "test" shop

[ajs6116]

Hi all,

 

I am currently running PS 1.6.1.5 and need to setup a test site on my remote hosting. So far I have copied the production site to a folder called "/test1/", and changed the database connection settings to point to a test version of my prod database. When I try to access my site I get redirected to my prod site.  I have tried to edit _PS_BASE_URI but I am unable to locate where the variable is defined.

As a work around, I updated my production sites, _PS_BASE_URI to point to test site, downed loaded my entire site (4.11 gb) and then uploaded they updated version to my test site. Still no luck.

How can I get my test PS instance to point to proper code base?

 

Thanks,

 

Art

[El Patron]

it is  'much' easier to create a devcopy of your shop in a subdomain.  Note: if you production shop is in a folder and not root then do the same thing,  put in same named folder on subdomain.  Then copy your shop,  update the db connection,  and set url via back office-->seo & urls.

[bellini13]

there are 2 things that you may have missed

1) In the database is a table named ps_shop_url, which contains the domain names for your store, as well as a base path.  Since your domain name has not changed, you can leave those alone, but you must edit the base path to /test1/

2) There is an .htaccess file in the root of your store that contains redirect information.  In your /test1/ folder you now have this .htaccess which needs to be re-created since the store URL is now different