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Posted by Brett Stave
Brett Stave
Courses Plus Student 3,585 Points

Website Duplication

Community,

I am trying to make PPC websites for hyper local markets and trying to duplicate an HTML/PHP site about 80 times. Everything will be basically the same with some minor adjustments to logos etc. Does anyone know where there is a course showing how to copy a website on a server and configure everything properly to make the site live? This includes setting file permissions, configuring .htaccess file etc. etc. etc. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

explain this duplication that you are talking about. Duplicate what exactly and what for? I'm not following on that part.

2 Answers

Brett Stave
PLUS
Brett Stave
Courses Plus Student 3,585 Points
Brett Stave
Brett Stave
Courses Plus Student 3,585 Points

So I have a website that currently exists on my rackspace server and I am simply trying to duplicate that website and all of its files and put them on a new domain and new database in a separate location. Obviously I need to configure some of the files for the new site from the website that I just copied everything over from. Once I set the nameservers for the domain that we purchased, I don't know what files I need to configure to make the website live. I've never learned how to do this?

Is there a particular process I can follow to achieve this task? I tried looking through TreeHouse but I cant find anything.

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

It depends on the website that you are using. If you are using a platform of some sort (joomla, wordpress, etc) then there should be a config file somewhere in root where you can change the database details from the old to the new.

Other than that, it should be pretty straight-forward. What kind of platform are you using specifically (if any)?