I just went production with my Auction site, but now that I have done that.  I don't have a good place to make changes so that I can test them before I move them to the Production site.  I tried to copy the auction directory to auction_test and the auctions to auctions_test and then changed the sysconfig.pm file to point to the new directories and paths and then when I went to the admin for the new test site, it was still using the Production sysconfig and if I changed any settings it would change the Production Settings.  Is it not possible to run multiple instances of this software on one webhost account?  I really need to have a test site.  What do other people do for testing?

Thanks,

Philip

You can run any number of copies under the same website each under separate sub directory.

so as you did if you installed one under cgi-bin/auction and copied to another directory cgi-bin/auction_test

you can of course have 2 independent copies working.

You need to edit sysconfig.pm file and change all directories and URLs also to the new location.

You need to change the cgi_url variable and cgi_dir etc in the sysconfig.pm file and also you need to access the new URL http://domain.com/cgi-bin/auction_test/admin.cgi .

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That's exactly what I did.  I changed everything in the sysconfig.pm as I stated in my original message.

I go and login to the auction_test/admin and all the links point to the production site.  Doesn't it not work because you are storing those variable values in global variables?  So isn't it reading the global variables already defined for the production site?  What else could I be missing?

Thanks,

Philip

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Did you set up new sql settings in your host cpanel? We did the same thing on our site at escriptstore.biz when we were playing with it but had to make new settings just as if it were another site or it will run into your main site.

Hope this helps.

George