[support] How to duplicate a Drupal Setup.

[Jeff]

On 23 May 2011, at 12:00 AM, Lloyd Lowe wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I have inherited a Drupal 5 setup which our Organization uses on a  
> daily basis. We have a machine hosted in the UK that supplies our  
> website to all our visitors and sponsors. This website has been  
> build on Drupal and I have recently upgraded it to Drupal 6.20. We  
> are planning on revamping this website completely but cant afford to  
> do this on the live site for obvious reasons so i have done the  
> following :
>
> I have installed a Debian 6.0.1a machine with Apache2, PHP5 and  
> mysql-server. I have tarred the /var/www folder and the /etc/apache  
> folder and downloaded them to my local machine. I have backed up my  
> database to a .sql file using phpmyadmin and downloaded that as  
> well. Let me tell you what i have done so far :
>
> in the sites-availabe and sites-enables folders I have websites that  
> look like this :   www.x.org.za (path = /var/www/drupal/home/www.x.org.za 
> )
>                                                                                                                                    www 
> .y.org.za (path = /var/www/drupal/home/www.y.org.za)
>
> I have logged into phpmyadmin and imported the database.
>
> I have untarred the download file into /var/www creating the paths  
> specified above.
>
> Now, here are my questions :
>
> 1 . How do i change the names of the websites so i can browse them  
> as http://localhost/x etc....... ?

You should not have copied over the entire apache folder. All that is  
necessary is to copy the /etc/apache2/sites-available/* virtualhost  
files. Then you would use "a2ensite www.x.org.za" and then restart  
apache.

For local access (on your development PC) you want to edit the  
localhost entry in /etc/hosts file, like this:

127.0.0.1	localhost www.x.org x www.y.org y whatever-x whatever-y

. . . But I wouldn't use actual domain names. Rather add a ServerAlias  
directive below the ServerName in /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.x.org.za 
, like this:

	ServerName x.org.za
	ServerAlias www.x.org.za x whatever-x


Remember, no changes take effect until you restart apache ("service  
apache restart" or "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart").

These are not Drupal issues, though, so feel free to email me for more  
help or info if you need.


> 2 . How do i make sure that Drupal is using the data I imported in  
> the step above - Was I supposed to import the data into the database  
> i pointed Drupal to or does the website have seperate database  
> references?

Check /var/www/x/sites/default/settings.php for the database settings  
in use.

--
Jeff Brown

Tel:+27-74-101 5170
Fax:+27-86-532 3508
www.wildcoast.co.za



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