Hi
I am getting ready to move my two main sites to 5.1.x in the next month.
I am doing my "due diligence" and finding out which modules need to be updated (and when).
I know I can always revert back from my DB and site file backups if things go wrong but I would prefer to have a "practice upgrade" before doing it on the real sites.
Its been ages since I had a local host install so I was wondering if the following scenario made sense.
Add an HTTP alias to the online sites DB of testsite.com
Upload a copy of all the existing sites files to the test domain.
Connect a copy of the DB to this domain
Remove the aliases.
At this point do I have 2 discrete and separated sites using the same files and DB?
I can see a possible problem with encryption keys?
Some licensed modules will maybe throw errors but do you think is this a viable / sensible way to get a quick testing environment.
Point Perhaps: Its when this sort of thing comes up that the correct but time consuming practice of running localhost analogues of key sites makes sense.
Thanks
Ian