Monday, March 23, 2009

Make clone site

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HOW TO COPY WEBSITE FROM http://abc.com to abc1.com with database
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Open two shells ( one with abc.com and other abc1.com )

then copy public_html of abc.com to abc1.com

go to public_html folder of abc.com and hit the command

[root@server public_html of abc.com]# cp -R * /home/abc1/public_html

Change the ownership of the files copied under public_html of abc1.com

Then take backup of mysql datatbase of abc.com

mysqldump abc_databasename > abc_databasename.sql ( of abc.com)

Create a new database and username under abc1.com ( add user to database, make a note of db name, user & password)

then go to shell and enter the following command:-

mysql -u abc1_user -ppassword abc1_databasename < abc_databasename.sql

Then go to the configuration file and do the changes accordingly.

YOUR SITE HAS BEEN COPIED WITH DATABASE TO NEW SITE.

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